Julien Allali

MiGaL Tutorial: Requirements and Installation

Requirements:

MiGaL has only been tested on Linux and probably doesn't work correctly under another operating system (mainly because of mmap)

You will need to have xerces installed. It is packaged into most of the linux distributions: on a debian linux, install package libxerces-c2-dev libxerces-c28. Alternatively follow this link.

Compilation and installation:

Download the lastest version of migal using this link.

At the location where you download the file:

• tar -zxf migal.tgz
• cd migal-*
• make
• make install
• make clean

7 binaries are now installed:

• migal: compare two secondary structures
• rnaconverter: convert file formats
• rna2tex: convert the trees of a MiGaL structure into a TeX file.
• check_ps: verify is migal can handle a postscript file
• rnapscolor: color postscript files for a sequence alignment
• getsequence: get the sequence from a Postscript file
• filterstructure: extract a part of a structure using a external sequence

In addition, there are some Python scripts in the ''tools'' directory.

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