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LAST

LAST finds similar regions between sequences, and aligns them. It is designed for comparing large datasets to each other.

Information

Usage

See versions of last that are available:

$ module avail last

Load one version into your environment and run it:

$ module load last/1066
$ lastdb
$ lastal

Installation

Notes from the sysadmin during installation.

$ cd /tmp
$ wget http://last.cbrc.jp/last-1066.zip
$ unzip last-1066.zip
$ cd last-1066
$ make
$ sudo mkdir -p /export/apps/last/1066
$ sudo chown aorth /export/apps/last/1066
$ make install prefix=/export/apps/last/1066
$ cp -r COPYING.txt ChangeLog.txt examples /export/apps/last/1066
$ sudo chown -R root:root /export/apps/last/1066