Installation of MAFFT 6.707

No additional library is required.

Follow this procedure to install MAFFT from its source code:

• The archive with the soource code is downloaded from its web site in /home/bioubuntu, decompressed and the created folder is moved into /opt/bio/sources.

• This folder should belong to root and its permissions set to 755.

% sudo chown -R root:root /opt/bio/sources/mafft-6.707-with-extensions
% sudo chmod 755 /opt/bio/sources/mafft-6.707-with-extensions

• Once you are in mafft-6.707-with-extensions, compilation is a 2-step process:

% cd extensions
% sudo make && sudo make install
% cd ../core
% sudo make && sudo make install

• The applications are now available!