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Programs of UCSC utilites

Hi!

I need to install two programs from UCSC utilites: - genePredToGtf - gtfToGenePred

I have tried to install them, and to install the whole package and I am not able to install them. Does anyone know a good tutorial in order to install them?gtfToGenePred

Thank you!

software error ucsc kentutilites

What operating system are you using? For Linux you can just download the executables from UCSC. That might work for a Mac too. For Windows, find someone with a Mac or Linux computer.

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Download the binaries for Linux from here: http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/

If you're on OSX, download the tools from here: http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/macOSX.x86_64/

If you're on Windows, get UCSC's virtual machine, run it on linux and type "gbibAddTools": https://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenpath/help/gbib.html

UCSC virtual machine is downloadable from UCSC genome store here.

If you're running OS X and Homebrew, you can run the following to install Kent-tools:

$ brew install brewsci/bio/kent-tools

Note: The following cask appears to be deprecated and does not appear to work:

$ brew install homebrew/science/kent-tools

As another option, you could clone the Github repository and compile tools directly:

$ git clone https://github.com/ENCODE-DCC/kentUtils.git
$ cd kentUtils
$ make
...

Etc.

Use conda and bioconda:

conda install ucsc-genepredtogtf ucsc-gtftogenepred

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