maffilter command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix maffilter command not found error message

Introduction

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

maffilter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: maffilter: command not found

Solutions to maffilter: command not found

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

In Ubuntu maffilter is provided by maffilter package.

maffilter is:

MafFilter applies a series of “filters” to a MAF file, in order to clean it, extract data and computer statistics while keeping track of the associated meta-data such as genome coordinates and quality scores.

  • It can process the alignment to remove low-quality / ambiguous / masked regions.
  • It can export data into a single or multiple alignment file in format such as Fasta or Clustal.
  • It can read annotation data in GFF or GTF format, and extract the corresponding alignment.
  • It can perform sliding windows calculations.
  • It can reconstruct phylogeny/genealogy along the genome alignment.
  • It can compute population genetics statistics, such as site frequency spectrum, number of fixed/polymorphic sites, etc.

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

sudo apt-get -y install maffilter

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

You can also use apt command to install maffilter.

sudo apt -y install maffilter

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

sudo aptitude install maffilter

Summary

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