5/23/2007 BLIMPS version 3.9 a maintenance update
These are the versions of the programs used to make release 14.3 of
the Blocks Database and that are currently used on our web pages:
http://blocks.fhcrc.org
Installation requires an ANSI C compiler on a UNIX system.
1. Block Searcher, LAMA, CODEHOPs and other utilities:
cd blimps
make clean, make depend, make install
2. Block Maker
cd protomat
make clean, make depend, make install
3. Compiled programs are placed in the lib/ and bin/ directories
There are pre-compiled versions for Solaris 9, GNU i686 Linux
and Mac/OSX in the bin/ and lib/ directories.
4. You need to set the environment variable BLIMPS_DIR to be sure
the programs run correctly. For example, they look for $BLIMPS_DIR/docs/
5. See the examples/ sub-directory for sample program execution.
Block Searcher is in examples/blimps/
Block Maker is in examples/protomat/
CODEHOP is in examples/codehop/
6. Please read the LICENSE file before using the programs.
7. Maintenance of these programs is funded by:
NIH RO1 GM068488 "Maintenance of blocks-based tools for functional genomics"
7/1/03 to 6/30/07
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Jorja Henikoff jorja@fhcrc.org
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center FAX: 206-667-5889
1100 Fairview AV N, A1-162, PO Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109-1024
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