The Institute for Systems Biology RepeatMasker Download

Prerequisites
  1. Unix system with perl 5.8.0 or higher installed
  2. Sequence Search Engine
    RepeatMasker uses a sequence search engine to perform it's search for repeats. Currently Cross_Match and WUBlast are supported. You will need to obtain one or the other of these and install them on your system.
  3. Repeat Database
    A special version of RepBase is used by RepeatMasker as the source for its repeat reference sequences. To obtain RepBase for RepeatMasker go to http://www.girinst.org.
Installation
  1. Download RepeatMasker
    Latest Released Version: 5/1/2008: RepeatMasker-open-3-2-2.tar.gz
    Previous Version: 4/16/2008: RepeatMasker-open-3-2-1.tar.gz
  2. Unpack Distribution
    Unpack the distribution in your home directory or in a location where it may be shared with other users of your system ( ie. /usr/local/ ).
    • cp RepeatMasker-open-3-#-#.tar.gz /usr/local
    • cd /usr/local
    • gunzip RepeatMasker-open-3-#-#.tar.gz
    • tar xvf RepeatMasker-open-3-#-#.tar
  3. Install RepeatMasker Libraries
    Download the libraries from http://www.girinst.org and unpack in the RepeatMasker program directory. This version supports the following libraries ( it is always best to use the most current ): repeatmaskerlibraries-20071204.tar.gz and later.
    • cp repeatmaskerlibraries-20071204.tar.gz /usr/local/RepeatMasker/
    • cd /usr/local/RepeatMasker
    • gunzip repeatmaskerlibraries-20071204.tar.gz
    • tar xvf repeatmaskerlibraries-20071204.tar
    • rm repeatmaskerlibraries-20071204.tar
  4. Run Configure Script
    The program requires some configuration before use. There is now a script which assists in making these changes.
    • cd /usr/local/RepeatMasker
    • perl ./configure
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RepeatMasker "open-3.0" is licensed under the Open Source License v2.1.

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