emboss software package provides European molecular biology open software suite, 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 emboss
emboss is installed in your system.
Make ensure the emboss package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep emboss *
You will get with emboss package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Science |
| Package | emboss |
| Version | 6.6.0+dfsg-5 |
| Description | European molecular biology open software suite |
| Sub Section | Science |