How to Install and Uninstall ncbi-epcr Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 08,2024

1. Install "ncbi-epcr" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install ncbi-epcr on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                ncbi-epcr
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "ncbi-epcr" package

This guide let you learn how to uninstall ncbi-epcr on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                ncbi-epcr
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the ncbi-epcr package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: ncbi-epcr
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.3.12-1-9
Priority: extra
Section: universe/science
Source: epcr
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 502
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)
Suggests: bioperl
Filename: pool/universe/e/epcr/ncbi-epcr_2.3.12-1-9_amd64.deb
Size: 165976
MD5sum: c6f59700148f2471c6ef9cdd24940ba0
SHA1: 82371e909e6b3b907eaa6ccd4c6932dddfefb041
SHA256: 2bc6e4db19eda8002bcdba6f9be910def203ff59603c39fb5052bee763933128
SHA512: fbfd0b33b9a4482a8bfd5d8f7d4204539175bd2d8419bdd276525dc43768f73c11e3a4f7fbd0c599c9a28fef2fbd25595cf240f02488914fd0bae428896fc0e5
Homepage: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/tools/epcr/
Description-en: Tool to test a DNA sequence for the presence of sequence tagged sites
Electronic PCR (e-PCR) is computational procedure that is used to identify
sequence tagged sites(STSs), within DNA sequences. e-PCR looks for potential
STSs in DNA sequences by searching for subsequences that closely match the
PCR primers and have the correct order, orientation, and spacing that could
represent the PCR primers used to generate known STSs.
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The new version of e-PCR implements a fuzzy matching strategy. To reduce
likelihood that a true STS will be missed due to mismatches, multiple
discontiguous words may be used instead of a single exact word. Each of this
word has groups of significant positions separated by 'wildcard' positions
that are not required to match. In addition, it is also possible to allow
gaps in the primer alignments.
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The main motivation for implementing reverse searching (called Reverse e-PCR)
was to make it feasible to search the human genome sequence and other large
genomes. The new version of e-PCR provides a search mode using a query
sequence against a sequence database.
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This program is retired upstream and it is suggested to use Primer-Blast
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/tools/primer-blast/
instead.
Description-md5: 6eb4b20b4e9fc4026571516f9268e389