[Bioperl-l] HELP: script cannot find primer3, which has been properly installed

[Brian Osborne]

zhihua li,

Are you on a Unix machine or Cygwin?

Brian O.


On 9/24/06 11:46 PM, "zhihua li" <lzhtom at hotmail.com> wrote:

> hi, netters
> 
> i installed primer3_1.0b and bioperl-run-1.4 following the instructions.
> the source of primer3 executables is in
> /home/zz/setup/primer3_1.0b/src/primer3_core.
> 
> then i tried the script in the documentation for bio::tool::run::primer3
> 
> use Bio::Tools::Run::Primer3;
> use Bio::SeqIO;
> 
>   my $seqio = Bio::SeqIO->new(-file=>'input.1');
>   my $seq = $seqio->next_seq;
>   my $primer3 = Bio::Tools::Run::Primer3->new(-seq => $seq,
>                                               -outfile => "temp.out",
>                                               -path =>
> "/home/zz/setup/primer3_1.0b/src/primer3_core");
> $primer3->add_targets('PRIMER_MIN_TM'=>56, 'PRIMER_MAX_TM'=>90);
> my $results = $primer3->run;
> 
> but when i ran it, there was an error message saying that primer3 couldn't
> be found.
> 
> i'm pretty sure primer3 has been properly installed. 'cause when i went to
> the source directory /home/zz/setup/primer3_1.0b/src/, i could run the
> program there using:
> 
> ./primer3_core<input.2
> 
> why couldn't the perl script find primer3?
> 
> thanks a lot!
> 
> 
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