Answers.Body: <p>To find <code>emboss</code> packages type <code>wossname</code>, then hit enter twice.  You will see all the programs.  There is one called <code>distmat</code>.  Then do <code>tfm distmat</code>, to get <code>the fkn manual</code> for <code>distmat</code>.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>I found fdnadist in embassy-phylip package <a href="https://anaconda.org/bioconda/embassy-phylip" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://anaconda.org/bioconda/embassy-phylip</a></p>
  
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Body: <p>My operating system is Mac OS X.</p>
  <p>I would like to compute DNA distances between different sequences. For this, the dnadist package from the Phylip software would be good but hard to automate. <a href="http://emboss.sourceforge.net/apps/release/6.0/embassy/phylipnew/fdnadist.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">EMBOSS</a> seems to have an fdnadist command for this. I have installed emboss version 6.6.0 from the bioconda package but if I type <code>fdnadist</code>, the command is not found. How can I use <code>dnadist</code> or <code>fdnadist</code> on the command line?</p>
  
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Title: How can I run the fdnadist command from the EMBOSS package?
ThreadText: # How can I run the fdnadist command from the EMBOSS package?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2020-09-17)
  
  My operating system is Mac OS X.
  
  I would like to compute DNA distances between different sequences. For this, the dnadist package from the Phylip software would be good but hard to automate. [EMBOSS](http://emboss.sourceforge.net/apps/release/6.0/embassy/phylipnew/fdnadist.html) seems to have an fdnadist command for this. I have installed emboss version 6.6.0 from the bioconda package but if I type `fdnadist`, the command is not found. How can I use `dnadist` or `fdnadist` on the command line?
  
  **Tags:** sequence-analysis, phylogenetics, software-installation, emboss
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2020-09-18. Score: 2 | Accepted answer
  
  To find `emboss` packages type `wossname`, then hit enter twice. You will see all the programs. There is one called `distmat`. Then do `tfm distmat`, to get `the fkn manual` for `distmat`.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2023-08-16. Score: 2
  
  I found fdnadist in embassy-phylip package <https://anaconda.org/bioconda/embassy-phylip>
  
  
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