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Galaxy wrapper for Augustus
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This wrapper is copyright 2012 by Björn Grüning.

This is a wrapper for the command line tool of augustus.
http://bioinf.uni-greifswald.de/augustus/

AUGUSTUS is a program that predicts genes in eukaryotic genomic sequences.

Oliver Keller, Martin Kollmar, Mario Stanke, Stephan Waack (2011)
A novel hybrid gene prediction method employing protein multiple sequence alignments
Bioinformatics, doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr010

Mario Stanke, Mark Diekhans, Robert Baertsch, David Haussler (2008)
Using native and syntenically mapped cDNA alignments to improve de novo gene finding
Bioinformatics, doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn013

Mario Stanke and Stephan Waack (2003)
Gene Prediction with a Hidden-Markov Model and a new Intron Submodel. 
Bioinformatics, Vol. 19, Suppl. 2, pages ii215-ii225




Installation
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Install or downlaod augustus from:

http://bioinf.uni-greifswald.de/augustus/binaries/

and follow the installation instructions or copy the binaries into your $PATH

To install the wrapper copy the augustus folder in the galaxy tools
folder and modify the tools_conf.xml file to make the tool available to Galaxy.
For example:

<section name="Gene Prediction" id="gene_prediction">
    <tool file="gene_prediction/tools/augustus/augustus.xml" />
</section>


Set the AUGUSTUS_CONFIG_PATH to /path_to_augustus/augustus/config with
    export AUGUSTUS_CONFIG_PATH=/path_to_augustus/augustus/config
or modify the wrapper and use the following additional commandline switch:
    --AUGUSTUS_CONFIG_PATH=/path_to_augustus/augustus/config




History
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v0.1 - Initial public release


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