Total newbie here and have no idea on what I'm doing. I have installed ubuntu on windows can open bash from windows now.
I have also downloaded burrow-wheeler aligner from the Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/bio-bwa/files/
From there I tried extracting the bz2 file. And I added the extracted folder into PATH
but when I type in bwa on bash, it says bwa: command not found
I'm a total beginner and want to get started with bioinformatics. I performed the aforementioned steps because that's how I setup conda to work on windows cmd.
What am I doing wrong?
In the subsystem, almost everything remains the same in your scenario just as an Ubuntu system, then you just follow the Readme file of this repository: lh3/bwa. Since the repo in Sourceforge seems to have been archived for a long time, you'd better use the newer alternative on Github.