System Requirements =================== Most of SAMtools functionality only depends on zlib which is included in this source code package. Compiling the alignment viewer further requires the GNU ncurses library , which comes with Mac OS X and most of the modern Linux/Unix distributions. If you do not have this library installed, you can still compile the rest of SAMtools by manually modifying two lines in Makefile as is described in the Makefile. Compilation =========== Type `make' to compile samtools. Installation ============ Simply copy `samtools' and other executables/scripts in `misc' to a location you want (e.g. a directory in your $PATH). No further configurations are required.