findknownsnps command not found

Introduction

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

findknownsnps: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: findknownsnps: command not found

Solutions to findknownsnps: command not found

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

In Ubuntu findknownsnps is provided by snpomatic package.

snpomatic is:

High throughput sequencing technologies generate large amounts of short reads. Mapping these to a reference sequence consumes large amounts of processing time and memory, and read mapping errors can lead to noisy or incorrect alignments.

SNP-o-matic is a fast, stringent short-read mapping software. It supports a multitude of output types and formats, for uses in filtering reads, alignments, sequence-based genotyping calls, assisted reassembly of contigs etc.

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

sudo apt-get -y install snpomatic

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

You can also use apt command to install snpomatic.

sudo apt -y install snpomatic

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

sudo aptitude install snpomatic

Summary

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