[Biojava-l] Getting Started

[mark.schreiber at group.novartis.com]

Hello -

Apologies for the out of dateness of the information. You have basically 3 
options.

1) get biojava1.4 pre1 release (the most recent official release from the 
download site)
2) get a nightly snapshot from http://www.derkholm.net/autobuild/ (reccomended)
3) get biojava-live from CVS (probably not best for beginners)

You need the following on your class path:

biojava.jar (version number depends on release or date of snapshot)
bytecode-0.92.jar 
commons-cli.jar 
commons-collections-2.1.jar 
commons-dbcp-1.1.jar 
commons-pool-1.1.jar 

At this point your done and dusted and should be able to run some demos 
from BioJava in Anger. You probably also want the docs and the source but 
you don't need them to run anything.
Hope this helps...

Mark Schreiber
Principal Scientist (Bioinformatics)

Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (NITD)
10 Biopolis Road
#05-01 Chromos
Singapore 138670
www.nitd.novartis.com

phone +65 6722 2973
fax  +65 6722 2910





Joe Davison <halting at comcast.net>
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09/07/2004 04:40 AM

 
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I'm trying to get started with BioJava.   I've been looking at  BioJava 
in Anger and it seems like a great resource.

However, the "How do I get and install BioJava" section leaves a little 
to be desired.  I'd already found the page it links to, and perhaps 
it's what needs updating.  The problem is particularly acute for those 
not around other users where one can ask a question. There's no real 
"here's what you need first" info there comparable to the "You will 
also need" section.

The link to the Download area leads to confusion, in that there are 6 
or 7 directories full of multiple versions of probably wonderful 
things, but somehow I doubt I really need to download the whole mess to 
get started.

Perhaps somewhere there could be a short Readme.txt  that says "If 
you're just getting started, start with these files: ....  Then check 
out the tutorials." or some such.

Thanks.

joe davison

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