prok-geneseek command not found

Introduction

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

prok-geneseek: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: prok-geneseek: command not found

Solutions to prok-geneseek: command not found

How To Fix prok-geneseek: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu prok-geneseek is provided by python3-biotools package.

python3-biotools is:

This package contains utilities like biotools.align - align sequences (hybrid between Needleman-Wunsch and Smith-Waterman which is used to find the subsequence within a larger sequence that best aligns to a reference) biotools.annotation - create annotation files. The annotations can be used to create a hierarchy among the annotations biotools.BLAST - manage BLAST databases and interface with the BLAST+ standalone program available from NCBI. biotools.clustal - interface to clustalw global (multiple nucleotide or peptide sequence alignment) biotools.complement - creates the complement of a sequence, which can then be reversed biotools.sequence - various tools to deal with sequences biotools.translate - translate a nucleotide using the standard genetic code

This package contains the Python3 module.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-biotools

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-biotools.

sudo apt -y install python3-biotools

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

sudo aptitude install python3-biotools

Summary

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