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Install ncbi-blast+ during setup

Open TransGirlCodes opened this issue 7 years ago • 3 comments

Ncbi-blast+ is a very common set of command line utilities for Bioinformatics, BioJulia's BioTools.jl requires this command line tool, other packages written by biologists may well want this too if they invoke blast from the julia shell interface.

TransGirlCodes avatar Mar 01 '18 13:03 TransGirlCodes

Why does BioTools not install this during installation already? How big/complicated is this package?

IainNZ avatar Jun 13 '18 22:06 IainNZ

I'm not sure I recall why not because this was a little while ago, but I suppose the suggested way to do this now is with https://github.com/JuliaPackaging/BinaryProvider.jl ?

TransGirlCodes avatar Jun 14 '18 09:06 TransGirlCodes

I'm a bit out of the loop myself, but I'd suggest that that possibility should ideally be fully explored before going down the path of adding exceptions here.

IainNZ avatar Jun 14 '18 21:06 IainNZ