Quick Installation
Download the newest OCTUPUS package from the SF Download page.
OCTUPUS requires the installation of MUSCLE, NCBI blast, and LUCY. The following libraries are required to compile LUCY and MUSCLE. In addition, OCTUPUS requires perl's www library in order to fetch NCBI taxonomy from the getTaxonomy.pl script.
- gcc.x86-64
- gcc-c++.x86-64bit
- perl-libwww-perl.noarch
Once you have compiled these programs, their executables must be linked to the environment. The alternative is to modify the following scripts with the location of the executables for LUCY, MUSCLE, and MEGABLAST.
- octu.pl
- chimera.pl
For example if your megablast executable was located in /usr/local/blast-2.2.22/bin, you would replace line 6 in octu.pl with
my $blastEXE = "/usr/local/blast-2.2.22/bin/megablast";