Let us imagine that we don’t need an organism anymore nd we want to suppress it from the list of available organisms on our RSAT server.
A concrete case: in the tutorial “Installing genomes from Ensembl and EnsemblGenomes” we installed Saccharomyces cerevisiae for the sake of test. After that, we installed the human genome, and since everything worked fine we would now like to suppress the version of Saccharomyces cerevisiaie downloaded from Ensembl.
We first need to identify the particular version that we installed from Ensembl.
## Identify the full name of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome
## that was downloaded from Ensembl
supported-organisms -source ensembl -taxon Saccharomyces
# result (2018-08-06): Saccharomyces_cerevisiae_R64-1-1
## Disable the usage of this genome (without deleting the files)
install-organism -org Saccharomyces_cerevisiae_R64-1-1 -task uninstall
## Check that this organism is not supported anymore
supported-organisms -source ensembl -taxon Saccharomyces
## Gives no result
## Check if the genome data is still there in the RSAT genome folder.
du -sm $RSAT/public_html/data/genomes/Saccharomyces_cerevisiae_R64-1-1
## Result: the folder is still there and occupies 39Mb
## Erase the genome data
install-organism -org Saccharomyces_cerevisiae_R64-1-1 -task erase
## Check if the genome data has well been removed now
du -sm $RSAT/public_html/data/genomes/Saccharomyces_cerevisiae_R64-1-1
## Result: "No such file or directory"