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Installation notes for Muscle version 3.8.31 - July 25, 2012
Home Page
Default version is 3.8.31 which
is installed as /usr/local/bin/muscle
Version 3.8.31b - Dec 15, 2011 from http://dna.cs.byu.edu/msa/
is installed as /usr/local/bin/muscle3.8.31b
Version 3.8.425 - Jan 4, 2013 from the Home Page
is installed as /usr/local/bin/muscle3.8.425
Version 3.8.1551 - July 12, 2014 compiled from source from the
Home Page (see instructions below)
is installed as /usr/local/bin/muscle3.8.1551
Prerequisites
None
Installation
- $ cd /programinstallers/
- $ wget -N http://www.drive5.com/muscle/downloads3.8.31/muscle3.8.31_i86linux64.tar.gz
- $ cd /usr/local/bin
- $ tar -zxvf /programinstallers/muscle3.8.31_i86linux64.tar.gz
muscle3.8.31_i86linux64
- $ ln -s muscle3.8.31_i86linux64 muscle
Installation from source
- $ ver="3.8.1551" #Source files are dated July 12, 2014
- $ cd /programinstallers/
- $ wget -N http://www.drive5.com/muscle/muscle_src_$ver.tar.gz
- $ cd /usr/local/bin
- Tarbomb warning!
- $ mkdir muscle_$ver && cd muscle_$ver
$ tar -zxvf /programinstallers/muscle_src_$ver.tar.gz
- $ make
- $ mv muscle ../muscle$ver
- Cleanup
$ cd .. && rm muscle_$ver -rf