miraconvert command not found

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

Introduction

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

miraconvert: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: miraconvert: command not found

Solutions to miraconvert: command not found

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

In Ubuntu miraconvert is provided by mira-assembler package.

mira-assembler is:

The mira genome fragment assembler is a specialised assembler for sequencing projects classified as ‘hard’ due to high number of similar repeats. For expressed sequence tags (ESTs) transcripts, miraEST is specialised on reconstructing pristine mRNA transcripts while detecting and classifying single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) occurring in different variations thereof.

The assembler is routinely used for such various tasks as mutation detection in different cell types, similarity analysis of transcripts between organisms, and pristine assembly of sequences from various sources for oligo design in clinical microarray experiments.

The package provides the following executables: Binaries provided:

  • mira: for assembly of genome sequences
  • miramem: estimating memory needed to assemble projects.
  • mirabait: a “grep” like tool to select reads with kmers up to 256 bases.
  • miraconvert: is a tool to convert, extract and sometimes recalculate all kinds of data related to sequence assembly files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mira-assembler

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

You can also use apt command to install mira-assembler.

sudo apt -y install mira-assembler

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

sudo aptitude install mira-assembler

Summary

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