toppred command not found

Introduction

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

toppred: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: toppred: command not found

Solutions to toppred: command not found

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

In Ubuntu toppred is provided by toppred package.

toppred is:

Toppred is a program to determine the topology of a transmembrane protein based on G. von Heijne algorithm.

Each sequence from seq data in fasta format is processed, and toppred generate the Hydrophobycity profile of the sequence, and the corresponding hydrophobycities values in the file sequence-ID.hydro.

Furthermore, the predicted topologies are represented as png images. Each topology is stored in file sequence-ID-number.png

The hydrophobicity profile is computed using a window formed by a core rectangular window of size n, flanked by 2 triangular windows of size q. NB rectangular and triangular mean that the ponderation values inside those windows are respectively constant and variable.

This program is a new implementation of the original toppred program, based on G. von Heijne algorithm

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

sudo apt-get -y install toppred

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

You can also use apt command to install toppred.

sudo apt -y install toppred

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

sudo aptitude install toppred

Summary

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