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Software

Required Software - External

1. GSL - GNU Scientific Library (Required for BIOS, which is a general C library)
2. BlatSuite - BLAT and a collection of utility programs. Note: these executables must be part of the PATH.
3. GD library - The GD library is used to create an image for each gene model and its associated variants.
4. Tabix - Tabix is generic tool that indexes position-sorted files in tab-delimited formats to facilitate fast retrieval (download). Note: these executables must be part of the PATH
5. VCF tools - VCF tools consists of a suite of useful modules to manipulate VCF files.

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Important Note
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THIS PACKAGE (VAT) IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED
WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Source code

A TAR ball containing the source code (contains BIOS - a general C library - and VAT) can be downloaded here:

• VAT-0.5.tar.gz - Initial upload

Executables

Statically built binaries for UNIX can be found here:

• VAT-0.5-UNIX.tar.gz - 64bit version

License information

The software package is released under the Creative Commons license (Attribution-NonCommerical).
For more details please refer to the Permissions Page on the Gerstein Lab webpage.

Installation

Installing the external GSL and GD libraries

In order to install VAT two external libraries must be installed first. Please, follow the instructions provided by each package. The GSL library can be installed on most systems using the following commands (for details, please refer to the specific instructions at the GNU Scientific Library website):

$ cd /path/to/gslSource/
$ ./configure --prefix=/path/to/installation/
$ make
$ make install

Similarly, the GD library can be installed on most systems with the following commands:

$ cd /path/to/gdSource/
$ ./configure --prefix=/path/to/installation/ --with-jpeg=/path/to/jpegLib/
$ make
$ make install

After they are installed, the first step to install VAT is the installation and configuration of BIOS. BIOS is a general C library for manipulating strings, arrays (this library requires the GSL library).

Installing and configuring BIOS

To install BIOS a few variables need to be set before compiling the library. Here is an example of the procedure on a bash shell:

$ export BIOINFOCONFDIR=/pathToBios/conf/
$ export BIOINFOGSLDIR=/pathToGsl/
$ cd /pathToBios/
$ make
$ make prod

Please refer to BIOS documentation for additional information.

Installing VAT

A few simple steps are required to install VAT:

$ cd /pathToVAT/
$ make