ecoPCRFormat command not found

Introduction

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

ecoPCRFormat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ecoPCRFormat: command not found

Solutions to ecoPCRFormat: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ecoPCRFormat is provided by ecopcr package.

ecopcr is:

DNA barcoding is a tool for characterizing the species origin using a short sequence from a standard position and agreed upon position in the genome. To be used as a DNA barcode, a genome locus should vary among individuals of the same species only to a minor degree and it should vary among species very quickly. From a practical point of view, a barcode locus should be flanked by two conserved regions to design PCR primers. Several manually discovered barcode loci like COI, rbcL, 18S, 16S and 23S rDNA, or trnH-ps are routinely used today, but no objective function has been described to measure their quality in terms of universality (barcode coverage, Bc ) or in terms of taxonomical discrimination capacity (barcode specificity, Bs ).

ecoPCR is an electronic PCR software developed by LECA and Helix-Project. It helps to estimate Barcode primers quality. In conjunction with OBITools you can postprocess ecoPCR output to compute barcode coverage and barcode specificity. New barcode primers can be developed using the ecoPrimers software

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

sudo apt-get -y install ecopcr

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

You can also use apt command to install ecopcr.

sudo apt -y install ecopcr

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

sudo aptitude install ecopcr

Summary

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