How To Install poa on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install poa on Ubuntu 22.04. poa is Partial Order Alignment for multiple sequence alignment

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install poa on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is poa

poa is:

POA is Partial Order Alignment, a fast program for multiple sequence alignment (MSA) in bioinformatics. Its advantages are speed, scalability, sensitivity, and the superior ability to handle branching / indels in the alignment. Partial order alignment is an approach to MSA, which can be combined with existing methods such as progressive alignment. POA optimally aligns a pair of MSAs and which therefore can be applied directly to progressive alignment methods such as CLUSTAL. For large alignments, Progressive POA is 10-30 times faster than CLUSTALW.

There are three methods to install poa on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install poa Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install poa

Install poa Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install poa

Install poa 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 poa using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install poa

How To Uninstall poa on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove poa

Uninstall poa And Its Dependencies

To uninstall poa and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove poa

Remove poa Configurations and Data

To remove poa configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge poa

Remove poa configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge poa

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install poa package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.