Installation

System requirements:

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.6+, LINUX or Windows XP/Vista/7.
antiSMASH version 2.x must be installed for the makedb program of Pep2Path to work, and the path to the antiSMASH installation directory should be indicated in the pep2path.cfg file. antiSMASH2 can be downloaded here.
Python 2.7 should be installed as the default Python installation, and the Python installation directory should be added to the $PATH variable. If you are a Windows user, click here for instructions.
When only using Nrp2Path with the supplied genbank.ppd file, or when only using RiPP2Path, it is not necessary to install antiSMASH2.

Prerequisites for antiSMASH2:

To be able to run antiSMASH2 on Windows, you will need to install the following packages:
- Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package
- Java
- Python 2.7.X
If you have trouble using the makedb.py script, please try the development version of antiSMASH 2.0, which can be obtained here.

To be able to run antiSMASH on Mac OS X, you will need to install Cairo and libxml2. These can be acquired by first installing MacPorts. Then, to get Cairo, type 'sudo port install cairo' in the terminal. To get libxml2, type 'sudo port install libxml2' in the terminal. If using a version of OS X older than 10.8, make sure that Python 2.7.3 is installed too. For more information, see the antiSMASH README file.

How to install:

Browse to the Pep2Path download page, download the zip file and extract it in a directory to which you have full writing access (e.g., your user home directory).

For full documentation, see the documentation PDF in the download section.