How To Install BEDTools on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install BEDTools
on CentOS 7.
What is BEDTools
The BEDTools utilities allow one to address common genomics tasks such as finding feature overlaps and computing coverage. The utilities are largely based on four widely-used file formats GFF/GTF, VCF, and SAM/BAM. Using BEDTools, one can develop sophisticated pipelines that answer complicated research questions by “streaming” several BEDTools together.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install BEDTools
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install BEDTools.
Install BEDTools on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install BEDTools
using yum
by running the following command:
Install BEDTools on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install BEDTools
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall BEDTools on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the BEDTools
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install BEDTools
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.