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Installation notes for signalP version 4.1

Web interface

Prerequisites

None

Installation

1. Download through web page + email http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/cgi-bin/nph-sw_request?signalp and save in /programinstallers
2. $ ver="4.1"
3. $ cd /usr/local/bin/
4. $ tar -zxvf /programinstallers/signalp-${ver}c.Linux.tar.gz
5. Make a version-independent symlink
   $ ln -s signalp-$ver signalp
6. $ cd signalp
7. $ nano signalp
   …

   ###############################################################################
   #               GENERAL SETTINGS: CUSTOMIZE TO YOUR SITE
   ###############################################################################
   
   # full path to the signalp-4.1 directory on your system (mandatory)
   BEGIN {
       $ENV{SIGNALP} = '/usr/local/bin/signalp';
   }
   
   # determine where to store temporary files (must be writable to all users)
   my $outputDir = "/tmp";
   
   # max number of sequences per run (any number can be handled)
   my $MAX_ALLOWED_ENTRIES=100000;

   …
8. Install the man page
   $ gzip signalp.1 && sudo mv signalp.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/
9. Add to default PATH for all users
   $ sudo nano /etc/profile
   …
   PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/signalp"
   …
10. Also there is deprecated gnuplot syntax, change the line
    push(@common, "set data style lines\n");
    to
    push(@common, "set style data lines\n");