easel

Top-level front end for the Easel utility collection shipped with HMMER. The binary advertises a dispatcher-style interface where easel -h shows overall help, easel <cmd> -h shows command help, and easel <cmd> ... runs a specific subcommand.

Quick Start

• Command: easel <cmd> [args...]
• Local executable: /home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin/easel
• Observed upstream identity: easel: little utilities for biological sequence analysis

When To Use This Tool

• Inspecting which Easel helper commands are available on the current machine
• Launching a specific Easel subcommand through the umbrella easel executable
• Working with HMMER-adjacent sequence/alignment helper utilities instead of calling lower-level binaries directly
• Verifying whether the local Easel install is runnable before building downstream workflows around it

Common Patterns

# Show top-level help summary
easel -h

# Show version
easel --version

# Ask a specific Easel subcommand for help
easel <cmd> -h

Recommended Workflow

1. Start with easel -h to confirm the dispatcher runs and to enumerate available subcommands.
2. Drill into a concrete helper with easel <cmd> -h before wiring it into a pipeline.
3. Only rely on the umbrella entry point after confirming the current environment can satisfy its shared-library dependencies.
4. If the dispatcher is broken locally, fall back to inspecting the environment and HMMER/Easel installation before assuming the subcommands themselves are missing.

Guardrails

• In this workspace, easel -h and easel --version both fail immediately with error while loading shared libraries: libopenblas.so.0, so runtime verification is currently blocked by a missing OpenBLAS library.
• readelf -d shows the binary requires libgsl.so.25, libopenblas.so.0, and libmpi.so.40, with an rpath of $ORIGIN/../lib.
• The binary strings still expose the expected interface: easel -h, easel --version, easel <cmd> -h, and easel <cmd> [<args>...].
• Treat this skill as a dispatcher-level reference, not as proof that any specific Easel subcommand is usable in the current environment.