Testing the Installed Tools

You would have tested some of these during the installation, but just in case, we’ll recap. Note that the exact version numbers need not match perfectly.

  1. Open a terminal window (Git Bash on Windows)
  2. Confirm Conda is installed by running:
$ conda --version
conda 4.4.10
  1. Confirm Git is installed by running:
$ git --version
git version 2.16.2.windows.1
  1. Confirm Python 3 from Anaconda is installed by running:
$ python --version
Python 3.6.4 :: Anaconda, Inc.
  1. Confirm the Python libraries we will be using are installed by running:
$ python -c "import Bio; import bioservices; import seaborn; import reportlab"
  1. Confirm Muscle is installed by running:
$ muscle -version
MUSCLE v3.8.31 by Robert C. Edgar
  1. Confirm NCBI BLAST+ is installed by running:
$ blastn -v
USAGE
  blastn [-h] [-help] ...
  1. You should have already tested that the Java applications can start.