How To Install umis 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 umis on Ubuntu.

What is `umis`

umis is:

Umis provides tools for estimating expression in RNA-Seq data which performs sequencing of end tags of transcript, and incorporate molecular tags to correct for amplification bias.

There are four steps in this process.

Formatting reads
Filtering noisy cellular barcodes
Pseudo-mapping to cDNAs
Counting molecular identifiers

There are three methods to install umis 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 umis Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install umis

Install umis Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install umis using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install umis

Install umis 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 umis using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install umis

How To Uninstall umis on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the umis package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove umis

Uninstall umis And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove umis

Remove umis Configurations and Data

To remove umis configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge umis

Remove umis configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge umis

Dependencies

umis have the following dependencies:

References

umis website

Summary

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