How To Install murasaki on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install murasaki on Debian 11. murasaki is homology detection tool across multiple large genomes

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install murasaki on Debian 11.

What is murasaki

murasaki is:

Murasaki is a scalable and fast, language theory-based homology detection tool across multiple large genomes. It enable whole-genome scale multiple genome global alignments. Supports unlimited length gapped-seed patterns and unique TF-IDF based filtering.

Murasaki is an anchor alignment software, which is

  • exteremely fast (17 CPU hours for whole Human x Mouse genome (with 40 nodes: 52 wall minutes))
  • scalable (Arbitrarily parallelizable across multiple nodes using MPI. Even a single node with 16GB of ram can handle over 1Gbp of sequence.)
  • unlimited pattern length
  • repeat tolerant
  • intelligent noise reduction

There are three methods to install murasaki on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install murasaki Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install murasaki

Install murasaki Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install murasaki

Install murasaki 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 murasaki using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install murasaki

How To Uninstall murasaki on Debian 11

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

sudo apt-get remove murasaki

Uninstall murasaki And Its Dependencies

To uninstall murasaki and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove murasaki

Remove murasaki Configurations and Data

To remove murasaki configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge murasaki

Remove murasaki configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge murasaki

Dependencies

murasaki have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install murasaki package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.