[Bioperl-l] setup standalong blast to work with bioperl

[chris dagdigian]

Will,

Looks like the perl expects to find out about your local blast directory 
location via checking an environment variable called BLASTDIR. You would 
set this up in a manner similar to the way you treat PATH and other 
variables in your environment.

-Chris


William Hsiao wrote:

>Hi,
>  I'm trying to setup bioperl and local blast on a
>linux box (Mandrake 8.1).  I am a bit confused by the
>statement:
>Configuring your environment to run Blast - set the
>environment variable BLASTDIR to the directory that
>contains your blast executeables, it is expected that
>a directory called 'data' will be located within this
>directory where your sequence db indexes and matrices
>are located.
>  Is this referring to the PATH environment variable
>of the OS (i.e. for bash, .bashrc file) or some other
>variables in the bioperl make files?  In order words,
>where do I specify the BLASTDIR?  Thank you for your
>help.
>
>Will
>
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