Genscan

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Introduction

Genscan is a program for gene prediction in Vertebrate, Maize and Arabidopsis. The program is available as a server and as a standalone program for Sun/Solaris, SGI/Irix, DEC/Tru64 and Intel/Linux.

To obtain a standalone version of the program, follow the instructions given at the end of the page [1]. If accepted, the program will be sent by email as an attachment (Filename: genscanlinux.tar.uue)
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Package details

* Source Code: Pre-compiled binary in UUencoded form
* Version: -
* License: Academic
* Developer(s): Burge, C. and Karlin, S.
* Website: http://genes.mit.edu/GENSCAN.html
* Download: http://genes.mit.edu/GENSCANinfo.html
* Requirements:
* FAQ:

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Installation

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Linux

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OpenSUSE

  1. The program is a tar archive in a uuencoded form (Filename: genscanlinux.tar.uue)
  2. It can be decoded with the program uudecode to give the tar archive
    uudecode genscanlinux.tar.uue

  3. Uncompress the tar archive to a global location (ex: /usr/local)

    cd /usr/local
    mkdir genscan
    cd genscan
    tar xvf /data/genscanlinux.tar

  4. Create a symbolic link for easy access

    cd /usr/local/bin
    ln -s /usr/local/genscan/genscan genscan
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RedHat/Fedora

  • Same as above
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Ubuntu/Debian

  • Same as above
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Running

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Troubleshooting

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