EMBOSS

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1 Introduction
2 Package details
3 Installation
- 3.1 Linux
4 Running
5 Troubleshooting

Introduction

EMBOSS stands for European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite. It is a collection of high quality, Open Source software for molecular biology research. It can be used to read and convert data in various formats and can be used for sequence alignment, database searching, motif detection, primer design etc.,

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Package details

* Format: Gzipped Tar Archive
* Source Code: ftp://emboss.open-bio.org/pub/EMBOSS/EMBOSS-5.0.0.tar.gz
* Version: 5.0.0
* License: GPL and LGPL
* Author: see http://emboss.sourceforge.net/credits/
* Website: http://emboss.sourceforge.net
* Download: http://emboss.sourceforge.net/download/
* Requirements: http://emboss.sourceforge.net/download/#Requirements
* FAQ: http://emboss.sourceforge.net/docs/faq.html

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Installation

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Linux

Uncompress the file EMBOSS-5.0.0.tar.gz into a temporary directory (ex: temp)
```
mkdir temp
```
```
cd temp
```
Assuming EMBOSS-5.0.0.tar.gz is downloaded to the /data directory,
```
tar zxvf /data/EMBOSS-5.0.0.tar.gz 
```
Configure
By default, EMBOSS is installed in /usr/local. If it has to be installed at some other location(ex: /opt), then the ./configure in the following step has to be replaced with ./configure --prefix=/opt
```
cd EMBOSS-5.0.0
```
```
./configure
```
Compile and Install
```
make
```
```
make install
```
Logout and Re-login or issue the command ldconfig as root to make the libraries available.