EMBOSS (The European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite) is a free open source software suite which is capable of handling bioinformatics problems. It contains extensive libraries for bioinformatics including:
- the most comprehensive set of sequence analysis programs
- database searching with sequence patterns
- protein structure identification and analysis
- nucleic acid analysis
- a set of core software libraries (AJAX and NUCLEUS)
- It integrates other publicly available packages
- It supports all common Unix platforms
Installing EMBOSS
Following are the steps to install EMBOSS on a Linux system:
- Download stable version of Emboss from http://emboss.sourceforge.net/download/
- tar xzvf EMBOSS-xx.tar.gz
- cd EMBOSS-x.x
- ./configure
- make
- make install
- to test, type wossname
wossname
All Emboss programs run from the Unix command line and wossname is no exception. wossname produce a list of emboss applications.
> wossname
> wossname seqret
> wossname nucleotide
seqret is a program and nucleotide is a keyword. EMBOSS programs like wossname have many parameters. To see a list of parameters type:
wossname -opt