How to Install and Uninstall bbmap Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 02,2024

1. Install "bbmap" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install bbmap on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                bbmap
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "bbmap" package

This guide let you learn how to uninstall bbmap on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                bbmap
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the bbmap package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: bbmap
Architecture: all
Version: 38.84+dfsg-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/science
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 5980
Depends: libmpj-java
Recommends: pigz
Filename: pool/universe/b/bbmap/bbmap_38.84+dfsg-1_all.deb
Size: 5272232
MD5sum: 7bf705a1cb57b51ce6512152fe278071
SHA1: a3a94ba9ee7c0094ed051c38fc99cf140107990e
SHA256: a1481dc462a7e66e88f0d432c1d2df3259f2aefaf7da3b51f43956d8fbe465ac
SHA512: 485f22dd9b838676190e90dab537b65feaf5a535f680604bcd86798a07d70c8f21ba6c8002ce364a1909514250920ecd214745b00a086d38f416f08b9343f603
Homepage: https://sourceforge.net/projects/bbmap/
Description-en: short read aligner and other bioinformatic tools
BBMap: Short read aligner for DNA and RNA-seq data. Capable of handling
arbitrarily large genomes with millions of scaffolds. Handles Illumina,
PacBio, 454, and other reads; very high sensitivity and tolerant of
errors and numerous large indels.
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BBMap is multithreaded as well as the other tools bundled into this
package for instance:
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BBNorm: Kmer-based error-correction and normalization tool.
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Dedupe: Simplifies assemblies by removing duplicate or contained
subsequences that share a target percent identity.
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Reformat: Reformats reads between fasta/fastq/scarf/fasta+qual/sam,
interleaved/paired, and ASCII-33/64, at over 500 MB/s.
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BBDuk: Filters, trims, or masks reads with kmer matches to an
artifact/contaminant file.
Description-md5: b5833726e45421cf74f3885c83040a6f