How to Install and Uninstall bowtie2 Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: December 29,2024

1. Install "bowtie2" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install bowtie2 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                bowtie2
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "bowtie2" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall bowtie2 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                bowtie2
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the bowtie2 package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: bowtie2
Priority: extra
Section: universe/science
Installed-Size: 5357
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.2.6-2
Depends: python, libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libtbb2
Suggests: bowtie2-examples
Filename: pool/universe/b/bowtie2/bowtie2_2.2.6-2_amd64.deb
Size: 1229288
MD5sum: e53ebd73660128b214b34b3dbf42a744
SHA1: 039057d077e4278a6e48057755c0e9acd5692240
SHA256: 6fa6caf51a256f77203ad9333fc5a593ca5c2b171460137b92b2e8511577e43f
Description-en: ultrafast memory-efficient short read aligner
is an ultrafast and memory-efficient tool for aligning sequencing reads
to long reference sequences. It is particularly good at aligning reads
of about 50 up to 100s or 1,000s of characters, and particularly good
at aligning to relatively long (e.g. mammalian) genomes.
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Bowtie 2 indexes the genome with an FM Index to keep its memory footprint
small: for the human genome, its memory footprint is typically
around 3.2 GB. Bowtie 2 supports gapped, local, and paired-end alignment modes
Description-md5: a4a641e19bb5b2750860b5cde2b844a2
Homepage: http://bowtie-bio.sourceforge.net/bowtie2
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu