This describes the steps require to install the Cactus pre-compile binary, static linked distribution.
If you have not already extract the distribution and cd into the cactus directory:
tar -xzf cactus-bin-v2.9.2.tar.gz
cd cactus-bin-v2.9.2
To build a python virtualenv and activate, do the following steps. This requires Python version >= 3.7 (so Ubuntu 18.04 users should use -p python3.8 below):
virtualenv -p python3 venv-cactus-v2.9.2
printf "export PATH=$(pwd)/bin:\$PATH\nexport PYTHONPATH=$(pwd)/lib:\$PYTHONPATH\n" >> venv-cactus-v2.9.2/bin/activate
source venv-cactus-v2.9.2/bin/activate
python3 -m pip install -U setuptools pip wheel
python3 -m pip install -U .
python3 -m pip install -U -r ./toil-requirement.txt
Some tools required for hal2assemblyHub.py, cactus-hal2chains and cactus-maf2bigmaf are not included and must be downloaded separately.
They are wigToBigWig faToTwoBit bedToBigBed bigBedToBed axtChain pslPosTarget bedSort hgGcPercent mafToBigMaf hgLoadMafSummary hgLoadChain. More information
can be found here. Note that some may require
a license for commercial use. Static binaries are not available, but the following command
should set them up successfully on many 64 bit Linux systems:
cd bin && for i in wigToBigWig faToTwoBit bedToBigBed bigBedToBed axtChain pslPosTarget bedSort hgGcPercent mafToBigMaf hgLoadMafSummary hgLoadChain; do wget -q http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/${i}; chmod +x ${i}; done
To test Cactus, the following will run a tiny sumulated alignment.
cactus ./jobstore ./examples/evolverMammals.txt ./evolverMammals.hal --realTimeLogging
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