July 2003
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
13h 44m
English
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Chapter 10: Installation and Command-Line Tutorial
(an optimized version of NCBI-BLAST, see Chapter 12). The CD image is located at
http://gm.sonsorol.org:8080/BioInfxToolsInstaller.cdr.
The installation procedure could not be much simpler. Double-click on the
BioInfxToolsInstaller.cdr image, open the BioInfxToolsInstaller that appears on your
desktop, and then double-click the agncbi12-20-2001.pkg. This launches a typical
installer, and after a few clicks and keystrokes, you’re done. At the end, you need to
do two more things: add one line to your .cshrc file and copy the .ncbirc file to your
home directory. To do this, open the Terminal application and type the following
two lines exactly as they appear here:
echo "source/usr/local/biotools/cshrc.biotools" >> ~/.cshrc
cp /usr/local/biotools/.ncbirc ~/.ncbirc
Macintosh OS 9 Installation
The OS 9 archive is called blast.hqx. If you click on the file icon, your browser will
most likely launch the appropriate tools to automatically expand the archive. If not,
you can use Stuffit Expander, which is available for free from http://www.stuffit.com.
The OS 9 applications look completely different from the command-line versions
because they all have a graphical interface. Don’t worry about this because the inter-
face isn’t pretty, and you ...
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