How To Install bowtie on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bowtie on CentOS 7.
What is bowtie
Bowtie, an ultrafast, memory-efficient short read aligner for short DNA sequences (reads) from next-gen sequencers. Please cite Langmead 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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bowtie.
Install bowtie on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install bowtie using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bowtie
Install bowtie 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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install bowtie using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bowtie
How To Uninstall bowtie on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the bowtie package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bowtie
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bowtie on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
