How To Install alien-hunter on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install alien-hunter on Ubuntu.

What is `alien-hunter`

alien-hunter is:

Alien_hunter is an application for the prediction of putative Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) events with the implementation of Interpolated Variable Order Motifs (IVOMs). An IVOM approach exploits compositional biases using variable order motif distributions and captures more reliably the local composition of a sequence compared to fixed-order methods. Optionally the predictions can be parsed into a 2-state 2nd order Hidden Markov Model (HMM), in a change-point detection framework, to optimize the localization of the boundaries of the predicted regions. The predictions (embl format) can be automatically loaded into Artemis genome viewer freely available at: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/Artemis/.

There are three methods to install alien-hunter on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install alien-hunter Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install alien-hunter using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install alien-hunter

Install alien-hunter Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install alien-hunter using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install alien-hunter

Install alien-hunter Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install alien-hunter using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install alien-hunter

How To Uninstall alien-hunter on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the alien-hunter package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove alien-hunter

Uninstall alien-hunter And Its Dependencies

To uninstall alien-hunter and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove alien-hunter

Remove alien-hunter Configurations and Data

To remove alien-hunter configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge alien-hunter

Remove alien-hunter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove alien-hunter configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge alien-hunter

Dependencies

alien-hunter have the following dependencies:

References

alien-hunter website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install alien-hunter package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.