mmseqs command not found

Introduction

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

mmseqs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mmseqs: command not found

Solutions to mmseqs: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mmseqs is provided by mmseqs2 package.

mmseqs2 is:

MMseqs2 (Many-against-Many sequence searching) is a software suite to search and cluster huge proteins/nucleotide sequence sets. MMseqs2 is open source GPL-licensed software implemented in C++ for Linux, MacOS, and (as beta version, via cygwin) Windows. The software is designed to run on multiple cores and servers and exhibits very good scalability. MMseqs2 can run 10000 times faster than BLAST. At 100 times its speed it achieves almost the same sensitivity. It can perform profile searches with the same sensitivity as PSI-BLAST at over 400 times its speed.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mmseqs2

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

You can also use apt command to install mmseqs2.

sudo apt -y install mmseqs2

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

sudo aptitude install mmseqs2

Summary

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