POSA - Perl Objects for Sequencing Data Analysis

Installation instructions

Download the file POSA-0.8.tar.gz (~ 7 Mb). Unpack the tar.gz file.

To install this module as root type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make install

Then, change some parameters in the Read.pm and Contig.pm files: search for '#CHECK THIS!!' and

point the line that states 'use lib' to the directory where Read.pm and Contig.pm are installed
change the paths to the pred, phrap, phd2fasta and polyphred programs, if necessary

To install this module as a user type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make

Then, change some parameters in the Read.pm and Contig.pm files: search for '#CHECK THIS!!' and

point the line that states 'use lib' to the directory where Read.pm and Contig.pm are installed
change the paths to the pred, phrap, phd2fasta and polyphred programs, if necessary

If the POSA objects were installed as a user rather than as root, each perl script accessing these objects should state the following line at the top:

  use lib '/path_to_POSA';

Documentation

Click to view the man pages of the objects:

man page of Read.pm (16 kb; txt format)
man page of Contig.pm (14 kb; txt format)

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