2 Installation

2.1 Dependencies

GeneTribe is implemented in python3, and three external command-line tools, which are executable on your PATH, are needed:

• BLAST (v2.9.0)
  The best installing way: conda install blast -c bioconda
• MCscan (v1.0.6)
  The best installing way: pip install jcvi
• BEDTools (v2.29.2)
  The best installing way: conda install bedtools -c bioconda

2.2 Installation

Before installing GeneTribe, the above three tools should be available. The easy way to obtain GeneTribe:

1. Download the latest version of GeneTribe from Github. We only provide Linux 64-bit version

   git clone https://github.com/chenym1/genetribe.git
   

2. Run the script to install GeneTribe

   cd genetribe
   ./install.sh
   

3. Add GeneTribe to your system PATH if necessary

   vi ~/.bash_profile
   # add the following lines to the end of ~/.bash_profile
   export PATH=/path/to/genetribe/:$PATH
   source ~/.bash_profile
   

4. View help of GeneTribe

   genetribe -h