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bowtie


Information about the package, bowtie, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The bowtie package is designed for, An ultrafast, memory-efficient short read aligner.


Package Name:

bowtie

Summary:

An ultrafast, memory-efficient short read aligner

Description:

Bowtie, an ultrafast, memory-efficient short read aligner for short DNA sequences (reads) from next-gen sequencers. Please cite: Langmead B, et al. Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome. Genome Biol 10:R25.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

0.12.7

Release:

2.el6

Size:

6.9 M

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

Artistic 2.0



Handy Yum Commands for bowtie


Control the bowtie package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install bowtie

This command will install bowtie on the server.

yum remove bowtie

This command will un-install bowtie on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove bowtie, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove bowtie

This command will un-install bowtie on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove bowtie when using the -y flag.

yum update bowtie

This command will update bowtie to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove bowtie, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update bowtie

This command will update bowtie to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove bowtie when using the -y flag.

yum info bowtie

This command will show you core information about the bowtie package.

yum deplist bowtie

This command will show you the dependencies for bowtie. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update bowtie

This command will check if there is an update waiting on bowtie. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.