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

Last updated: February 08,2025

1. Install "racon" package

Please follow the guidance below to install racon on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall racon on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


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

Package: racon
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.4.13-2build1
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: 3829
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libedlib0 (>= 1.2.3), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libspoa4.0.0 (>= 1.1.3), libstdc++6 (>= 9), libthread-pool0 (>= 1.0.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Recommends: python3, rampler
Filename: pool/universe/r/racon/racon_1.4.13-2build1_amd64.deb
Size: 3265172
MD5sum: d684744956655206bcf11bfe3be3cedc
SHA1: e0211b857da1ed549b67bbc666f5fd3cb80a7dc6
SHA256: c686d419556a56d728a12a086be5c33a9c1af191724b8d5977703a2704c8939d
SHA512: b5f2e90ef95c527e2413df38d6cd44a5c1733838107a00abbac5bb0e916aa8943f9580d72b4b55b00c8822768616d66005fab9ec414efbdeb2698bd009984002
Homepage: https://github.com/lbcb-sci/racon
Description-en: consensus module for raw de novo DNA assembly of long uncorrected reads
Racon is intended as a standalone consensus module to correct raw
contigs generated by rapid assembly methods which do not include a
consensus step. The goal of Racon is to generate genomic consensus which
is of similar or better quality compared to the output generated by
assembly methods which employ both error correction and consensus steps,
while providing a speedup of several times compared to those methods. It
supports data produced by both Pacific Biosciences and Oxford Nanopore
Technologies.
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Racon can be used as a polishing tool after the assembly with either
Illumina data or data produced by third generation of sequencing. The
type of data inputed is automatically detected.
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Racon takes as input only three files: contigs in FASTA/FASTQ format,
reads in FASTA/FASTQ format and overlaps/alignments between the reads
and the contigs in MHAP/PAF/SAM format. Output is a set of polished
contigs in FASTA format printed to stdout. All input files can be
compressed with gzip.
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Racon can also be used as a read error-correction tool. In this
scenario, the MHAP/PAF/SAM file needs to contain pairwise overlaps
between reads including dual overlaps.
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A wrapper script is also available to enable easier usage to the end-
user for large datasets. It has the same interface as racon but adds
two additional features from the outside. Sequences can be subsampled
to decrease the total execution time (accuracy might be lower) while
target sequences can be split into smaller chunks and run sequentially
to decrease memory consumption. Both features can be run at the same
time as well.
Description-md5: 0245f53dd68b53cce76f4a5dd8d8a554