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Download and Installation

Prerequisites

What software you need to install depends very much on what you want to do. Let's have a look...

You want to convert BioMagResBank data

The first prerequisite is Python, preferably version 1.5.2. Besides, you need to grab the code and install at least one DOM implementation (4DOM or PyDOM contained in the xml-0.5 package). Don't worry, all the sources are contained in the Support directory of the distribution.

You want to visually edit the STAR data

Make sure you have a decent Java installation at your site, then go to the Xeena site and install Xeena.

From the StarDOM distribution, grab the stardom.dtd file and fire up Xeena with something like
%>zsh xeena.sh /scrap/ehrlich/stardom.dtd STAR
If this pops up a huge editor window, you're ready to go. Just go to our BioMagReBank/XML mirror and download the data files.

Other XML editors/viewers or web browsers that understand XML (M$ Internet Explorer5 or Mozilla5) should be able to display the document as well. We haven't performed any tests though.

You want to perform XQL queries on the data

You'll need to install an XQL query engine. Go to the XQL FAQ and choose an implementation you like. We used the Perl XML::XQL package.

Getting the source

Feel free to download StarDOM.tar.gz.

Installation

First, install the DOM implementation you prefer.

After this, copy the StarDOM directory to somewhere in your PYTHONPATH and try to execute a
%>python -c 'import StarDOM'
If this works without complaints, you're ready to go.

License agreement

We would like to give the code away freely for noncommercial purposes. Please check our license agreement.

Jens Linge, Lutz Ehrlich