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Installation notes for Bowtie2 version 2.1.0

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Prerequisites

sudo apt-get install libtbb2

Installation

1. $ ver="2.1.0"
2. $ cd /programinstallers/
3. $ wget -N http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/bowtie-bio/bowtie2/$ver/bowtie2-$ver-linux-x86_64.zip
4. $ cd /usr/local/bin
5. $ unzip /programinstallers/bowtie2-$ver-linux-x86_64.zip
6. If upgrading, delete old symlink
   $ rm bowtie2
7. Create version-independent symlink
   $ ln -s bowtie2-$ver bowtie2
8. Unless upgrading, add version-independent symlink to path for all users
   $ sudo nano /etc/profile
   ...
   PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/bowtie2"
   ...