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This article describes some recipes for the installation of softwre used by anvi’o but developed by other groups.
If you are an end-user and trying to install anvi’o, you shouldn’t be on this page. Instead, please find our installation instructions and follow them.
But the article is limited to those tools that we do not install through our conda recipes. Please see our GitHub repository to see a complete list of third-party software that are required for anvi’o to install or critical but not required for its runtime (i.e., they are critical if you want to do anything comprehensive with anvi’o, but without them you still can install and run anvi’o).
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DSSP
DSSP (Dictionary of Secondary Structure Prediction) is a program for annotating amino acids in protein structures with structural information, such as secondary structure (alpha, helix, etc.) and solvent accessibility.
Citation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6667333
Citation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3013697/
Do you already have DSSP? Go to your terminal, and type mkdssp --version. If you do not get an error, read ahead to make sure your DSSP is operational. If you get an error, you need to install DSSP.
Use this command line to install DSSP with conda:
conda install -c salilab dssp
If you get a command not found error, you have to install conda, and easy install instructions can be found on their website
Test your DSSP installation by running the following commands your terminal:
wget http://files.rcsb.org/view/1H97.cif #download myoglobin structure
mkdssp -i 1H97.cif -o myoglobin_DSSP.txt
If no error is produced, DSSP is working (you can open up myoglobin_DSSP.txt to see what the output looks like).
MODELLER
MODELLER is a program for homology or comparative modeling of protein three-dimensional structures using a reference database.
Citation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18428767
Citation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10940251
Citation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8254673
Go to your terminal and type mod and then attempt to autocomplete the command by pressing the tab key twice. If something like mod9.xx pops up, where xx is some number, you have MODELLER. If xx is lower than 19, you should reinstall MODELLER using the following instructions.
If you don’t have any version of MODELLER, their website has excellent cross-platform intallation instructions. If you are using conda, you can just run:
conda install -c salilab modeller
Regardless of your method of installation, check it worked by typing mod into your terminal and seeing that it autocompletes after pressing the tab key twice.
Along with an installation, you will need a license key (which is free for academic use). You can go ahead and register for a license key on their website and put the key where they tell you, or you can just pretend you have one and anvi’o will give you precise instructions on how to get one and what to do with it when the time comes.