4 SAMtools depends on the zlib library <http://www.zlib.net>. The latest
5 version 1.2.3 is preferred and with the latest version you can compile
6 razip and use it to compress a FASTA file. SAMtools' faidx is able to
7 index a razip-compressed FASTA file to save diskspace. Older zlib also
8 works with SAMtools, but razip cannot be compiled.
10 The text-based viewer (tview) requires the GNU ncurses library
11 <http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/>, which comes with Mac OS X and
12 most of the modern Linux/Unix distributions. If you do not have this
13 library installed, you can still compile the rest of SAMtools by
14 manually modifying one line in Makefile.
20 Type `make' to compile samtools. If you have zlib >= 1.2.2.1, you can
21 compile razip with `make razip'.
27 Simply copy `samtools' and other executables/scripts in `misc' to a
28 location you want (e.g. a directory in your $PATH). No further
29 configurations are required.