# \[Nix@NGI\] BIDS packaged for NGI Forge
**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-ngi-bids-packaged-for-ngi-forge/79411
**Category:** NGI Zero
**Created:** [August 7, 2026, 8:28pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-ngi-bids-packaged-for-ngi-forge/79411 "2026-08-07T20:28:03Z")
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### Author:  [@AhmedAmrNabil](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/AhmedAmrNabil)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2026, 8:28pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-ngi-bids-packaged-for-ngi-forge/79411/1 "2026-08-07T20:28:03Z")
[**BIDS**](https://github.com/APH10/BIDS) is a tool to analyse ELF binaries and extract key features for indexing and searching.
### Try it out
Visit the [application page](https://ngi.nixos.org/app/bids), launch BIDS in a shell environment and follow the usage instructions.
### Links
- Project Details
- [NGI Forge Tracking Issue](https://github.com/ngi-nix/projects/issues/251)
### Share your feedback
We’d like to hear from you, so please leave your feedback using this [short survey](https://cryptpad.ngi.nixos.org/form/#/2/form/view/3X1lzb3+XxsLUq-TygwGn-R3aHcvwuNo3L7Ya8Z1VWo/).
Alternatively, you can join the:
- [office hours on Jitsi](https://jitsi.lassul.us/ngi-nix-office-hours) every [Tuesday and Thursday from 15:00–16:00 CET/CEST](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=b9o52fobqjak8oq8lfkhg3t0qg@group.calendar.google.com)
- [NGIpkgs Matrix channel](https://matrix.to/#/#ngipkgs:matrix.org)
for any further comments or questions.
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This work has been done by @AhmedAmrNabil as part of the [Nix@NGI packaging effort](https://nixos.org/community/teams/ngi), funded by [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl) under the NGI0 Core grant(s).
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### Author:  [@AhmedSobhy01](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/AhmedSobhy01)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2026, 9:42am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-ngi-bids-packaged-for-ngi-forge/79411/2 "2026-08-08T09:42:32Z")
Great to see this packaged. Thanks for the work!