dammit 0.1.0

dammit!

“I love writing BLAST parsers!” – no one, ever

dammit is a simple de novo transcriptome annotator. It was born out of the observation that: annotation is mundane and annoying; all the individual pieces of the process exist already; and, the existing solutions are overly complicated or rely on crappy non-free software.

Science shouldn’t suck for the sake of sucking, so dammit attempts to make this sucky part of the process suck a little less.

Installation

Complete instructions with explanations are at the documentation website. For the impatient, here’s a stripped down version.

These instructions assume you’re on Ubuntu 14.04. dammit will run on OSX too, though some of the dependencies will need to be installed manually.

Anaconda is the recommended python distribution, or at the very least, virtualenv to manage your python packages. Once you have a working python environment, proceed as follows:

pip install -U setuptools
pip install dammit

Get packages from the Ubuntu PPAs:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev python-numpy git ruby hmmer unzip \
    infernal ncbi-blast+ liburi-escape-xs-perl emboss liburi-perl python-sklearn
sudo gem install crb-blast

Install some packages manually:

cd
curl -LO https://github.com/TransDecoder/TransDecoder/archive/2.0.1.tar.gz
tar -xvzf 2.0.1.tar.gz
cd TransDecoder-2.0.1; make
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/TransDecoder-2.0.1

cd
curl -LO http://last.cbrc.jp/last-658.zip
unzip last-658.zip
cd last-658
make
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/last-658/src

cd
curl -LO http://busco.ezlab.org/files/BUSCO_v1.1b1.tar.gz
tar -xvzf BUSCO_v1.1b1.tar.gz
chmod +x BUSCO_v1.1b1/*.py
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/BUSCO_v1.1b1
cd

To add these to your environment permanently:

echo 'export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/TransDecoder-2.0.1' >> $HOME/.bashrc
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/last-658/src' >> $HOME/.bashrc
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/BUSCO_v1.1b1' >> $HOME/.bashrc

Acknowledgements

I’ve received input and advice from a many sources, including but probably not limited to: C Titus Brown, Matt MacManes, Chris Hamm, Michael Crusoe, Russell Neches, Luiz Irber, Lisa Cohen, Sherine Awad, and Tamer Mansour.

CS is funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R01HG007513 through May 2016, and also receives support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation under Award number GBMF4551.