# \[Nix@NGI\] Variation Graphs packaged for NGI Forge (and soon Nixpkgs)
**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-ngi-variation-graphs-packaged-for-ngi-forge-and-soon-nixpkgs/77774
**Category:** NGI Zero
**Created:** [May 22, 2026, 8:56am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-ngi-variation-graphs-packaged-for-ngi-forge-and-soon-nixpkgs/77774 "2026-05-22T08:56:04Z")
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### Author:  [@eljamm](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/eljamm)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2026, 8:56am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-ngi-variation-graphs-packaged-for-ngi-forge-and-soon-nixpkgs/77774/1 "2026-05-22T08:56:04Z")
**[Variation Graphs](https://github.com/vgteam/vg)** is a toolkit for working with genome variation graphs.
It provides tools for mapping, calling, and manipulating variation graph representations of genomes.
### Try it out
Visit the [application page](https://ngi-nix.github.io/forge/app/vg-app), launch Variation Graphs in a shell environment:
```auto
nix shell github:ngi-nix/forge/335017b8#vg-app
```
and follow the usage instructions.
### Links
- Project Details
- [Source Repository](https://github.com/vgteam/vg)
- [Website](https://vgteam.github.io)
- [NGI Forge Tracking Issue](https://github.com/ngi-nix/projects/issues/877)
- [Nixpkgs PR (open)](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/522653)
### Share your feedback
We’d like to hear from you, so please leave your feedback using this [short survey](https://nixos-foundation.notion.site/35759d49e1be81edb478e3aade9f8e95?pvs=105).
Alternatively, you can join the:
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- [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 @eljamm as part of the [Nix@NGI packaging effort](https://nixos.org/community/teams/ngi), funded by [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl) under the NGI0 Review grant(s).
Also, a thanks goes out to @magicrb, whose [previous packaging attempt](https://github.com/ngi-nix/vg) helped iron out a few things.
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### Author:  [@rhendric](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/rhendric)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2026, 6:16pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-ngi-variation-graphs-packaged-for-ngi-forge-and-soon-nixpkgs/77774/2 "2026-05-22T18:16:32Z")
It is excellent to see that NGI work is picking up recently!
Instead of making several one-post topics a day, do you think you and the other NGI folks could create a long-running topic for packaging announcements? Maybe one topic for the year or season or whatever unit of time makes sense?
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### Author:  [@eljamm](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/eljamm)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2026, 9:23pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-ngi-variation-graphs-packaged-for-ngi-forge-and-soon-nixpkgs/77774/3 "2026-05-22T21:23:37Z")
Yes, you certainly make a fair point. We were previously doing this, but it was quite time and energy-consuming, that’s why we settled on this more maintainable format.
We also believe that individual posts like this could highlight each project and showcase it to the community in a more digestible manner.
I know the posting may seem like too much right now, but it’s because we already have a backlog of completed but unannounced projects. As time goes on, we expect the number of posts to be more reasonable.
In the meantime, everything we post is under the [`NGI Zero` category](https://discourse.nixos.org/c/dev/ngi-zero/45), so muting it is always an option if this gets too noisy.