Hi all,
I want to run ESTScan2 (to translate EST sequences to protein)that is written by Perl. i downloaded the package but i don't know how can i run it and unfortunately it hasn't any user guide. if you have any experience about it, please help me. tanks a lot in advance
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There are several packages, I assume you took the tar.gz compressed package. The documentation is in the compressed archive, extract it: a README file (). You need to have installed perl and a c-compiler as a precondition to build this, doing this on windows will be more complicated than on linux, if on windows you probably need cygwin for the compilation. Extract the archive like so:
tar xvzf estscan-[?].tar.gz
The README says:
This is a Perl module. It requires my
BTLib module, which should be
located in the parent directory of this one.
They can be built and installed like any other Perl modules:
cd <BTLib directory>
perl Makefile.PL
make install
Actually the BTLib directory is the one you just extracted. To install it globally you might add
sudo. Then run ESTscan, it is a perl program.
Good luck
thanks for your help. I downloaded the package from http://sourceforge.net/projects/estscan/
I am freshman about bioinformatics, if possible help me as simple as possible. thanks again for your help.
regards
The latest version ESTScan 3.0 is entirely written in C that bypasses some perl module problems, download and compile that.You can download it from HERE
ESTScan 3.x runs on Linux/Unix and requires a Fortran as well as a C compiler, the default for fortran is G77(see the Makefile) , I however was able to compile it with GFortran
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