wiggle2gff3 command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix wiggle2gff3 command not found error message

Introduction

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

wiggle2gff3: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wiggle2gff3: command not found

Solutions to wiggle2gff3: command not found

How To Fix wiggle2gff3: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu wiggle2gff3 is provided by gbrowse package.

gbrowse is:

Generic Genome Browser is a simple but highly configurable web-based genome browser. It is a component of the Generic Model Organism Systems Database project (GMOD). Some of its features:

  • Simultaneous bird’s eye and detailed views of the genome;
  • Scroll, zoom, center;
  • Attach arbitrary URLs to any annotation;
  • Order and appearance of tracks are customizable by administrator and end-user;
  • Search by annotation ID, name, or comment;
  • Supports third party annotation using GFF formats;
  • Settings persist across sessions;
  • DNA and GFF dumps;
  • Connectivity to different databases, including BioSQL and Chado;
  • Multi-language support;
  • Third-party feature loading;
  • Customizable plug-in architecture (e.g. run BLAST, dump & import many formats, find oligonucleotides, design primers, create restriction maps, edit features).

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

sudo apt-get -y install gbrowse

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

You can also use apt command to install gbrowse.

sudo apt -y install gbrowse

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

sudo aptitude install gbrowse

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix wiggle2gff3 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.