abyss software package provides de novo, parallel, sequence assembler for short reads, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install abyss
abyss is installed in your system.
Make ensure the abyss package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep abyss *
You will get with abyss package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Science |
| Package | abyss |
| Version | 1.9.0-1.1 |
| Description | de novo, parallel, sequence assembler for short reads |
| Sub Section | Science |