create_Drop-seq_reference_metadata.sh command not found

Introduction

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

create_Drop-seq_reference_metadata.sh: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: create_Drop-seq_reference_metadata.sh: command not found

Solutions to create_Drop-seq_reference_metadata.sh: command not found

How To Fix create_Drop-seq_reference_metadata.sh: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu create_Drop-seq_reference_metadata.sh is provided by drop-seq-tools package.

drop-seq-tools is:

This software provide for core computational analysis of Drop-seq data, which shows you how to transform raw sequence data into an expression measurement for each gene in each individual cell.

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

sudo apt-get -y install drop-seq-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install drop-seq-tools.

sudo apt -y install drop-seq-tools

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

sudo aptitude install drop-seq-tools

Summary

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