Installing SMINA on Ubuntu (Linux).

Tariq Abdullah
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SMINA is a fork of AutoDock Vina supporting better scoring function and high-performance energy minimization [1]. In this article, we are going to install SMINA on Ubuntu (Linux).

Preparing system

Let’s update and upgrade our system first.

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get upgrade

Downloading SMINA

Download SMINA from here. Change to the directory where you have downloaded the file. Here, we have downloaded in ‘Downloads’. You will see a file named ‘smina.static

$ cd Downloads/

Installing SMINA

Give permission to the downloaded file.

$ chmod +x smina.static

Now, you can run this file as shown below.

$ ./smina.static

It will display the usage.


References

  1. https://sourceforge.net/projects/smina/
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Tariq is founder of Bioinformatics Review and CEO at IQL Technologies. His areas of expertise include algorithm design, phylogenetics, MicroArray, Plant Systematics, and genome data analysis. If you have questions, reach out to him via his homepage.
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