align_dna command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

align_dna: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: align_dna: command not found

Solutions to align_dna: command not found

How To Fix align_dna: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu align_dna is provided by genomethreader package.

genomethreader is:

GenomeThreader is a software tool to compute gene structure predictions. The gene structure predictions are calculated using a similarity-based approach where additional cDNA/EST and/or protein sequences are used to predict gene structures via spliced alignments. GenomeThreader was motivated by disabling limitations in GeneSeqer, a popular gene prediction program which is widely used for plant genome annotation.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install genomethreader

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install genomethreader.

sudo apt -y install genomethreader

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install genomethreader

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix align_dna command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.