QIIME 2 is a next-generation microbiome bioinformatics platform that is extensible, free, open-source, and community developed.
QIIME 2 is installed in a conda environment so you can install it yourself. All you need to do to enable conda is run module load anaconda.
After that, you can create your own anaconda environment and install QIIME2 in there. That leaves you in control of updates and what other packages are installed. QIIME2 provides the conda commands to use to create and install this environment. Their info is here: https://library.qiime2.org/quickstart/amplicon You can skip the installing or updating of miniconda steps and just use the steps under the "Install the base distribution’s conda environment" section. Make sure to use the commands under the "linux" tab. As of March 2026, this is the command you need to do the actual installation from that page:
conda env create \
--name qiime2-amplicon-2026.1 \
--file https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qiime2/distributions/refs/heads/dev/2026.1/amplicon/released/qiime2-amplicon-ubuntu-latest-conda.yml