How To Install metastudent-data on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install metastudent-data on Ubuntu 18.04. metastudent-data is predictor of Gene Ontology terms from protein sequence - data files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install metastudent-data on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is metastudent-data

metastudent-data is:

Often, only the sequence of a protein is known, but not its functions. Metastudent will try to predict missing functional annotations through homology searches (BLAST).

All predicted functions correspond to Gene Ontology (GO) terms from the Molecular Function Ontology (MFO) and the Biological Process Ontology (BPO) and are associated with a reliability score.

This package contains data files for metastudent.

There are three methods to install metastudent-data on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install metastudent-data Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install metastudent-data

Install metastudent-data Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install metastudent-data

Install metastudent-data 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 metastudent-data using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install metastudent-data

How To Uninstall metastudent-data on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the metastudent-data package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove metastudent-data

Uninstall metastudent-data And Its Dependencies

To uninstall metastudent-data and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove metastudent-data

Remove metastudent-data Configurations and Data

To remove metastudent-data configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge metastudent-data

Remove metastudent-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge metastudent-data

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install metastudent-data package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.