How To Install bowtie on Fedora 34

bowtie is An ultrafast, memory-efficient short read aligner

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bowtie on Fedora 34.

What is bowtie

Bowtie, an ultrafast, memory-efficient short read aligner for short DNA sequences (reads) from next-gen sequencers. Please cite B, et al. Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome. Genome Biol 10

We can use yum or dnf to install bowtie on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bowtie.

Install bowtie on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install bowtie using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bowtie

Install bowtie on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install bowtie using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bowtie

How To Uninstall bowtie on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the bowtie package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove bowtie

bowtie Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/bowtie
/usr/bin/bowtie-align-l
/usr/bin/bowtie-align-l-debug
/usr/bin/bowtie-align-s
/usr/bin/bowtie-align-s-debug
/usr/bin/bowtie-build
/usr/bin/bowtie-build-l
/usr/bin/bowtie-build-l-debug
/usr/bin/bowtie-build-s
/usr/bin/bowtie-build-s-debug
/usr/bin/bowtie-inspect
/usr/bin/bowtie-inspect-l
/usr/bin/bowtie-inspect-l-debug
/usr/bin/bowtie-inspect-s
/usr/bin/bowtie-inspect-s-debug
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/06
/usr/lib/.build-id/06/329271bb4707df64c6f77c20dffcf70dce1aaa
/usr/lib/.build-id/0d
/usr/lib/.build-id/0d/4442a80765050c4b688b791dcc3d5e993a56fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/20
/usr/lib/.build-id/20/19067ed13d0dd7a6e2ab66e5b0a75304410c1e
/usr/lib/.build-id/26
/usr/lib/.build-id/26/235b5ba1980c7c1dff374a729ce9d572c7c86a
/usr/lib/.build-id/31
/usr/lib/.build-id/31/3597548c3440e8fd8a27884ecb7d9354641e11
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/849de76fde6b045d5c2ca760a491ec0b334b63
/usr/lib/.build-id/74
/usr/lib/.build-id/74/967ac00bef0239d15541488b3922cf21654aac
/usr/lib/.build-id/75
/usr/lib/.build-id/75/f3bb10b058cf568b06ba5c01e1a4e8aed37a31
/usr/lib/.build-id/94
/usr/lib/.build-id/94/5eb3e906fd6aa691383c1dd84841c1d76f5515
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7/20a5abbdffba37581f195077cef541892ddc61
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9/3047ed938ea810c7d6fb72b054c012479b7df8
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9/a8a57c94f53a87afb652487bb198876db93582
/usr/share/bowtie
/usr/share/bowtie/genomes
/usr/share/bowtie/genomes/NC_008253.fna
/usr/share/bowtie/indexes
/usr/share/bowtie/indexes/e_coli.1.ebwt
/usr/share/bowtie/indexes/e_coli.2.ebwt
/usr/share/bowtie/indexes/e_coli.3.ebwt
/usr/share/bowtie/indexes/e_coli.4.ebwt
/usr/share/bowtie/indexes/e_coli.README
/usr/share/bowtie/indexes/e_coli.rev.1.ebwt
/usr/share/bowtie/indexes/e_coli.rev.2.ebwt
/usr/share/bowtie/reads
/usr/share/bowtie/reads/e_coli_1000.fa
/usr/share/bowtie/reads/e_coli_1000.fq
/usr/share/bowtie/reads/e_coli_1000.raw
/usr/share/bowtie/reads/e_coli_10000snp.fa
/usr/share/bowtie/reads/e_coli_10000snp.fq
/usr/share/bowtie/reads/e_coli_1000_1.fa
/usr/share/bowtie/reads/e_coli_1000_1.fq
/usr/share/bowtie/reads/e_coli_1000_2.fa
/usr/share/bowtie/reads/e_coli_1000_2.fq
/usr/share/bowtie/reads/e_coli_1000_interleaved.fq
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/best_verify.pl
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/bowtie-hbb.sh
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/bs_mapability.pl
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/build_test.sh
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/colorize_fasta.pl
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/colorize_fastq.pl
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/convert_quals.pl
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/fastq_to_tabbed.pl
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/gen_2b_occ_lookup.pl
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/gen_dnamasks2colormask.pl
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/gen_occ_lookup.pl
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/gen_solqual_lookup.pl
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/infer_fraglen.pl
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/make_a_thaliana_tair.sh
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/make_b_taurus_UMD3.sh
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/make_c_elegans.sh
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/make_canFam2.sh
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/make_d_melanogaster.sh
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/make_e_coli.sh
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/make_galGal3.sh
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/make_h_sapiens_ncbi36.sh
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/make_h_sapiens_ncbi37.sh
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/make_hg18.sh
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/make_hg19.sh
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/make_m_musculus_ncbi37.sh
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/make_mm8.sh
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/make_mm9.sh
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/make_rn4.sh
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/make_s_cerevisiae.sh
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/mapability.pl
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/pe_verify.pl
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/reconcile_alignments.pl
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/reconcile_alignments_pe.pl
/usr/share/bowtie/scripts/run-hbb.sh
/usr/share/doc/bowtie
/usr/share/doc/bowtie/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/bowtie/MANUAL
/usr/share/doc/bowtie/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/bowtie/TUTORIAL
/usr/share/doc/bowtie/VERSION
/usr/share/doc/bowtie/manual.html
/usr/share/doc/bowtie/style.css
/usr/share/licenses/bowtie
/usr/share/licenses/bowtie/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bowtie on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.