How To Install seaview 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 seaview on Ubuntu.
What is seaview
seaview is:
SeaView is a viewer and editor of multiple sequence alignments, i.e. DNA or protein sequences are positioned each in their own separate line, such that the nucleotide/amino acid at a particular position (column) is presumed to have the same biochemical property.
SeaView reads and writes various file formats (NEXUS, MSF, CLUSTAL, FASTA, PHYLIP, MASE, Newick) of DNA and protein sequences and of phylogenetic trees. Alignments can be manually edited. It drives the programs Muscle or Clustal Omega for multiple sequence alignment, and also allows one to use any external alignment algorithm able to read and write FASTA-formatted files. It computes phylogenetic trees by parsimony using PHYLIP’s dnapars/protpars algorithm, by distance with NJ or BioNJ algorithms on a variety of evolutionary distances, or by maximum likelihood using the program PhyML 3.0.
SeaView draws phylogenetic trees on screen or PostScript files, and allows one to download sequences from EMBL/GenBank/UniProt using the Internet.
There are three methods to install seaview 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 seaview Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install seaview using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install seaview
Install seaview Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install seaview using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install seaview
Install seaview 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 seaview using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install seaview
How To Uninstall seaview on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the seaview package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove seaview
Uninstall seaview And Its Dependencies
To uninstall seaview and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove seaview
Remove seaview Configurations and Data
To remove seaview configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge seaview
Remove seaview configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove seaview configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge seaview
Dependencies
seaview have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install seaview package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.