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Cell Ranger ARC 2.1.0 (Oct 6, 2025)

Chromium Single Cell Software Suite
Self-contained, relocatable tar file. Does not require centralized installation.
Contains binaries pre-compiled for CentOS/RedHat 7.0 and Ubuntu 14.04.
Runs on Linux systems that meets the minimum compute requirements.

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Download for Linux 64-bit (tar.gz)
File size: 852 MB
md5sum: 64018a2d04f0573a6e9d5d5ed7932d82
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```
curl -o cellranger-arc-2.1.0.tar.gz "https://cf.10xgenomics.com/releases/cell-arc/cellranger-arc-2.1.0.tar.gz?Expires=1765086795&Key-Pair-Id=APKAI7S6A5RYOXBWRPDA&Signature=SLnUJnKEp7M1Lo9dfcpdAGj5HAD-5lrJmfUSbhZmqbFNsTqhy9nM08MOSVAUyYQjTeJYnXrYtzNYMIumdrInReZvaty0~fICpO5NlVOJsN9YSxLHyHIUCfDab5CWvgw19MRS2ZgPDuAyACWODpGv3ws~bdtv~H~G9FJdPgGJqom2Nx9xq36PdQi4BptffnyD8PsDQarxSFokPlo5cvKh2sCCa~X-ODioPcl2LZnq2p1fVQ9rl24i1nqYs-Dn64kiDjdjCLOO8vvjXfQcRO1~hFadQbJKfIHLl8VFA97BTJ8YLySdBjvcdCd5tTjbwF~Y9MkgwON-HRaHQ1wKEm1B7A__"
```

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Download for Linux 64-bit (tar.xz)

File size: 607 MB

md5sum: 8a8b495fad481b7da3e23eef8f99d9a4

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curl -o cellranger-arc-2.1.0.tar.xz "https://cf.10xgenomics.com/releases/cell-arc/cellranger-arc-2.1.0.tar.xz?Expires=1765086795&Key-Pair-Id=APKAI7S6A5RYOXBWRPDA&Signature=MEjvbr62o~~-FW8Wj5M0ADX~VdmWdFVens7soFcqYymfKu3AQwVAryBLzQADz7OTWFieH-qXh46bumRGia22iAq2sL4H2kNSJY-4zRWb9iOM7eWzwLGLGFyHmW58KPtFpPGbvU72XpmIcWqEgqMkggEmwVQp8wSV9gwegIpWFibGk9QECk1ku-8jcTSa4NTkZmGAstOaPEtUIKnsDG4q0BN99OIWDAgjjRvYH44MmyZib0ODJ-H0r-Fx5hJB8XOqUiwn7FlqxTXBPSJxYaOnynSZy26VLkjvmWfAxOFy6JgQHXNrgc1Se4JljHiw82zCC5xzerBtX4Gq5LF2WkRKag__"

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Cell Ranger ARC v2.1.0 highlights

Users can now perform automated cell type annotations using Gene Expression libraries.
Includes anonymized telemetry data collection to help 10x Genomics improve product functionality.
Strand information is now included in the `fragments.tsv` file.
Improvements to computational performance.

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Release notes

References

Steps to build references

2020-A references & reference release notes

Human reference (GRCh38) - 2024-A
- Human reference (GRCh38) dataset required for Cell Ranger ARC.
Download Human Reference
File size: 14 GB
md5sum: 57a41ecf38b1ec2ef66b3d345ad05839
curl
wget
```
curl -O "https://cf.10xgenomics.com/supp/cell-arc/refdata-cellranger-arc-GRCh38-2024-A.tar.gz"
```
Mouse reference (GRCm39) - 2024-A
- Mouse reference (mm10) dataset required for Cell Ranger ARC.
Download Mouse Reference
File size: 13 GB
md5sum: 25c52a830d5f749558f84e1400c71486
curl
wget
```
curl -O "https://cf.10xgenomics.com/supp/cell-arc/refdata-cellranger-arc-GRCm39-2024-A.tar.gz"
```

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System requirements

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Installation

Cell Ranger ARC installation

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