| name | easel |
| description | Use when invoking the top-level `easel` dispatcher to discover or run Easel sequence-analysis subcommands from the HMMER toolchain. |
| disable-model-invocation | true |
| user-invocable | true |
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
easel -h
easel --version
easel <cmd> -h
Recommended Workflow
- Start with
easel -h to confirm the dispatcher runs and to enumerate available subcommands.
- Drill into a concrete helper with
easel <cmd> -h before wiring it into a pipeline.
- Only rely on the umbrella entry point after confirming the current environment can satisfy its shared-library dependencies.
- 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.
