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SAMtools installation on windows

How to install SAMtools on Windows 10? I have downloaded it though but unable to run it.

rna-seq samtools

You can only install it under ubuntu bash shell in Win 10. Is that what you are referring to?

Oh !!! I wanted to use it on Windows and not on Linux.

2 answers

Hi,

You might be interested in knowing that Windows 10 offers a new feature, A full, Ubuntu-based Bash shell that can run Linux software directly on Windows.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about

https://www.howtogeek.com/265900/everything-you-can-do-with-windows-10s-new-bash-shell/

This will be helpful to you for your windows 10 based NGS analysis.

Best

Refer to this post on BOW (Bioinformatics for winows)

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