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gitarunprasanna83 edited this page Jul 24, 2019 · 2 revisions

Anaconda for life !

Conda makes your life very easy ! Most of the bio-packages are now distributed in conda. You can create multiple virtual environments, which allows easy 1 command installation, solves version conflicts etc.,

Download and install anaconda from (Prefer Python 3x)

Anaconda_download

After GUI-based installation,

  1. Create an environment

conda_env

  1. Activate an environment

conda_activate

  1. Install a software: type conda install -c bioconda seqkit

conda_install

  1. Go to the folder where, you have genome and protein file and type:

seqkit stats *.fa

Explore the other utilities of seqkit !

  1. To exit the environment, use conda deactivate

Summary:

Now you know how to install packages related to bioinformatics in hassle-free method !

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