Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install blixem on Kali Linux.
What is blixem
blixem is:
Blixem is an interactive browser of sequence alignments that have been
stacked up in a “master-slave” multiple alignment; it is not a ’true’
multiple alignment but a ‘one-to-many’ alignment.
- Overview section showing the positions of genes and alignments around
the alignment window - Detail section showing the actual alignment of protein or nucleotide
sequences to the genomic DNA sequence. - View alignments against both strands of the reference sequence.
- View sequences in nucleotide or protein mode; in protein mode, Blixem
will display the three-frame translation of the reference sequence. - Residues are highlighted in different colours depending on whether
they are an exact match, conserved substitution or mismatch. - Gapped alignments are supported, with insertions and deletions being
highlighted in the match sequence. - Matches can be sorted and filtered.
- SNPs and other variations can be highlighted in the reference
sequence. - Poly(A) tails can be displayed and poly(A) signals highlighted in the
reference sequence.
There are three methods to install blixem on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install blixem Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install blixem using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install blixemInstall blixem Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install blixem using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install blixemInstall blixem Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install blixem using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install blixem
How To Uninstall blixem on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the blixem package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove blixem
Uninstall blixem And Its Dependencies
To uninstall blixem and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove blixem
Remove blixem Configurations and Data
To remove blixem configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge blixem
Remove blixem configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove blixem configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge blixem
Dependencies
blixem have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libcurl4
- libgbtools0
- libgcc-s1
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk2.0-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libsqlite3-0
- libstdc++6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install blixem package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
