dazcon command not found

Introduction

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

dazcon: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dazcon: command not found

Solutions to dazcon: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dazcon is provided by pbdagcon package.

pbdagcon is:

pbdagcon is a tool that implements DAGCon (Directed Acyclic Graph Consensus) which is a sequence consensus algorithm based on using directed acyclic graphs to encode multiple sequence alignment.

It uses the alignment information from blasr to align sequence reads to a “backbone” sequence. Based on the underlying alignment directed acyclic graph (DAG), it will be able to use the new information from the reads to find the discrepancies between the reads and the “backbone” sequences. A dynamic programming process is then applied to the DAG to find the optimum sequence of bases as the consensus. The new consensus can be used as a new backbone sequence to iteratively improve the consensus quality.

While the code is developed for processing PacBio(TM) raw sequence data, the algorithm can be used for general consensus purpose. Currently, it only takes FASTA input. For shorter read sequences, one might need to adjust the blasr alignment parameters to get the alignment string properly.

The code and the underlying graphical data structure have been used for some algorithm development prototyping including phasing reads and pre-assembly.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pbdagcon

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

You can also use apt command to install pbdagcon.

sudo apt -y install pbdagcon

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

sudo aptitude install pbdagcon

Summary

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