How To Install bowtie-examples on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bowtie-examples on Kali Linux.

What is bowtie-examples

bowtie-examples is:

This package addresses the problem to interpret the results from the latest (2010) DNA sequencing technologies. Those will yield fairly short stretches and those cannot be interpreted directly. It is the challenge for tools like Bowtie to give a chromosomal location to the short stretches of DNA sequenced per run.

Bowtie aligns short DNA sequences (reads) to the human genome at a rate of over 25 million 35-bp reads per hour. Bowtie indexes the genome with a Burrows-Wheeler index to keep its memory footprint small: typically about 2.2 GB for the human genome (2.9 GB for paired-end).

This package provides some example data to work with bowtie.

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

Install bowtie-examples Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install bowtie-examples

Install bowtie-examples Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install bowtie-examples

Install bowtie-examples Using aptitude

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

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install bowtie-examples

How To Uninstall bowtie-examples on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove bowtie-examples

Uninstall bowtie-examples And Its Dependencies

To uninstall bowtie-examples and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bowtie-examples

Remove bowtie-examples Configurations and Data

To remove bowtie-examples configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge bowtie-examples

Remove bowtie-examples configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bowtie-examples

Dependencies

bowtie-examples have the following dependencies:

References

• bowtie-examples website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bowtie-examples package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.