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Installation notes for BWA version 0.7.9a

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Prerequisites

zlib

• $ sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev

Installation

1. $ ver="0.7.9a"
2. $ cd /programinstallers/
3. $ wget -N http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/bio-bwa/bwa-$ver.tar.bz2
4. $ tar -jxvf bwa-$ver.tar.bz2
5. $ cd bwa-$ver
6. $ make
7. $ mkdir /usr/local/bin/bwa-$ver
8. $ cp -puv bwa *.pl /usr/local/bin/bwa-$ver/
   `bwa' -> `/usr/local/bin/bwa-0.7.9a/bwa
   `qualfa2fq.pl' -> `/usr/local/bin/bwa-0.7.9a/qualfa2fq.pl'
   `xa2multi.pl' -> `/usr/local/bin/bwa-0.7.9a/xa2multi.pl'
9. Install the manual
   $ gzip bwa.1
10. $ sudo cp -puv bwa.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/
11. Make a version-independent symlink
    $ cd /usr/local/bin/
12. $ ln -s bwa-$ver bwa
13. Add to default path for all users
    $ sudo nano /etc/profile
    ...
    PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/bwa"
    ...
14. Cleanup
    $ rm /programinstallers/bwa-$ver -rf