How to Install bowtie2 software package in Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak)

How to Install bowtie2 software package in Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak)

bowtie2 software package provides ultrafast memory-efficient short read aligner, 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 bowtie2 

bowtie2 is installed in your system.

Make ensure the bowtie2 package were installed using the commands given below,

$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep bowtie2 *

You will get with bowtie2 package name, version, architecture and description in a table

bowtie2 package basic information:

Distro Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak
Section Science
Package bowtie2
Version 2.2.9-4
Description ultrafast memory-efficient short read aligner
Sub Section Science


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