INSTALLATION Function2Gene currently requires the following: perl wget HTML::TreeBuilder HTML::ElementTable XML::Parser::Expat Thread::Queue these requirements are most easily satisfied on a Debian system (or other unix systems) but it is possible to use windows as well. aptitude install wget perl libwww-perl libxml-parser-perl dh-make-perl; dh-make-perl --cpan --build --install Thread::Queue; will retrieve the necessary commponents. [On lenny or unstable, you will want libhtml-parser-perl instead of libwww-perl.] For other systems, installing the modules using CPAN may be the best approach. USAGE All of the programs are located within a bin directory. For a demonstration, you can simply do the following: cd bin; echo 'transferrin' > keywords.txt function2gene --keywords keywords.txt --results keyword_results;