How To Install bowtie2-examples on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bowtie2-examples
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is bowtie2-examples
bowtie2-examples is:
An ultrafast and memory-efficient tool for aligning sequencing reads to long reference sequences. It is particularly good at aligning reads of about 50 up to 100s or 1,000s of characters, and particularly good at aligning to relatively long (e.g. mammalian) genomes.
Bowtie 2 indexes the genome with an FM Index to keep its memory footprint small: for the human genome, its memory footprint is typically around 3.2 GB. Bowtie 2 supports gapped, local, and paired-end alignment modes
This package provides some example data to work with bowtie2.
There are three methods to install bowtie2-examples
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install bowtie2-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 bowtie2-examples
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bowtie2-examples
Install bowtie2-examples Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bowtie2-examples
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bowtie2-examples
Install bowtie2-examples 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install bowtie2-examples
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bowtie2-examples
How To Uninstall bowtie2-examples on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the bowtie2-examples
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bowtie2-examples
Uninstall bowtie2-examples And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bowtie2-examples
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bowtie2-examples
Remove bowtie2-examples Configurations and Data
To remove bowtie2-examples
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bowtie2-examples
Remove bowtie2-examples configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bowtie2-examples
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bowtie2-examples
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bowtie2-examples
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.