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Installation of MUSCLE 3.7

Installation of MUSCLE 3.7

Additional libraries

No additional library is required.

Procedure

This is the procedure to follow to install MUSCLE from source code:

  • The archive with the source code is downloaded from its web location in /home/bioubuntu, decompressed and the created folder os 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/muscle3.7_src
% sudo chmod 755 /opt/bio/sources/muscle3.7_src
  • Once you are in /opt/bio/sources/muscle3.7_src, compilation is easily done:
% sudo make
  • To make the application available to everyone:
% sudo ln -s /opt/bio/sources/muscle3.7_src/muscle /usr/local/bin/muscle