Glimmer

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glimmer is a system for finding genes in microbial DNA, especially the genomes of bacteria, archaea, and viruses. Glimmer (Gene Locator and Interpolated Markov ModelER) uses interpolated Markov models (IMMs) to identify the coding regions and distinguish them from noncoding DNA.

[edit] Availability

  • biobase.ist.unomaha.edu (3.02)
  • phylogeny.ist.unomaha.edu (3.02)
  • klab.ist.unomaha.edu (3.02)

[edit] Installation

In a ubuntu box, do the following to install glimmer: 

1. Download and extract the glimmer .tar.gz file from their website.
2. tar -xzvf glimmer.tar.gz
3. cd glimmer/src/ ; make
4. mv glimmer /usr/local/
5. Make sure /usr/local/glimmer/bin is included in the environmental variable PATH.
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