How To Install any2fasta on Debian 12

Learn how to install any2fasta on Debian 12 with this tutorial. any2fasta is convert various sequence formats to FASTA

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install any2fasta on Debian 12.

What is any2fasta

any2fasta is:

Established tools like readseq and seqret from EMBOSS, both create mangled IDs containing | or . characters, and there is no way to fix this behaviour. This resultes in inconsitences between .gbk and .fna versions of files in pipelines.

This script uses only core Perl modules, has no other dependencies like Bioperl or Biopython, and runs very quickly.

It supports the following input formats:

  1. Genbank flat file, typically .gb, .gbk, .gbff (starts with LOCUS)
  2. EMBL flat file, typically .embl, (starts with ID)
  3. GFF with sequence, typically .gff, .gff3 (starts with ##gff)
  4. FASTA DNA, typically .fasta, .fa, .fna, .ffn (starts with >)
  5. FASTQ DNA, typically .fastq, .fq (starts with @)
  6. CLUSTAL alignments, typically .clw, .clu (starts with CLUSTAL or MUSCLE)
  7. STOCKHOLM alignments, typically .sth (starts with # STOCKHOLM)
  8. GFA assembly graph, typically .gfa (starts with ^[A-Z]\t)

Files may be compressed with:

  1. gzip, typically .gz
  2. bzip2, typically .bz2
  3. zip, typically .zip

There are three methods to install any2fasta on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install any2fasta Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install any2fasta using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install any2fasta

Install any2fasta Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install any2fasta using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install any2fasta

Install any2fasta Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install any2fasta using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install any2fasta

How To Uninstall any2fasta on Debian 12

To uninstall only the any2fasta package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove any2fasta

Uninstall any2fasta And Its Dependencies

To uninstall any2fasta and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove any2fasta

Remove any2fasta Configurations and Data

To remove any2fasta configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge any2fasta

Remove any2fasta configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove any2fasta configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge any2fasta

Dependencies

any2fasta have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install any2fasta package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.