maf_parse command not found

Introduction

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

maf_parse: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: maf_parse: command not found

Solutions to maf_parse: command not found

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

In Ubuntu maf_parse is provided by phast package.

phast is:

PHAST is a software package for comparative and evolutionary genomics. It consists of about half a dozen major programs, plus more than a dozen utilities for manipulating sequence alignments, phylogenetic trees, and genomic annotations. For the most part, PHAST focuses on two kinds of applications: the identification of novel functional elements, including protein-coding exons and evolutionarily conserved sequences; and statistical phylogenetic modeling, including estimation of model parameters, detection of signatures of selection, and reconstruction of ancestral sequences.

PHAST does not support phylogeny reconstruction or sequence alignment, and it is designed for use with DNA sequences only (see Comparison).

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

sudo apt-get -y install phast

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

You can also use apt command to install phast.

sudo apt -y install phast

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

sudo aptitude install phast

Summary

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