[EMBOSS] Data for Jasextract

Simon Andrews simon.andrews at bbsrc.ac.uk
Mon Mar 8 13:53:06 UTC 2010


I've been trying to use EMBOSS to search using the Jaspar database  
(jaspextract /  jaspscan), but with no success.

I think the problem is coming from jaspextract.  TFM says:

Input file format

    The input files are the uncompressed and extracted JASPAR_CORE.tgz,
    JASPAR_FAM.tgz and JASPAR_PHYLOFACTS.tgz files provided in the  
JASPAR
    MatrixDir download directory of the JASPAR homepage
    (http://jaspar.genereg.net).


..but there are no files named that way (the only google hit to those  
names is the jaspextract manpage!).

The main jaspar archive file is Archive.zip.  If I unzip this and run  
jaspextract on the expanded directory it runs with no errors or  
warnings, but if I subsequently try to run jaspscan I get an error  
saying:

Warning: Matrix file(s) *.pfm not found

    EMBOSS An error in jaspscan.c at line 870:
Matrix list file JASPAR_CORE/matrix_list.txt not found

I've tried loads of different subdirectories within the JASPAR  
database dump, but can't find anything which actually puts data into  
the appropriate EMBOSS data directories.

Can anyone else make this work?

Thanks

Simon.



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