how to place samtools in "PATH" for use with TopHat on MAC

[louis7781x]

Hi everyone

Now I have installed tophat on mac64bit,but I have some question.

I download tophat-1.31 Mac OS X x86_64 binary,and it doesn't need to compile.


The following is maual of tophat

You will also need the samtools program in your PATH, and if you plan to compile Tophat from source you should also install the SAM tools package, by following these steps:
Download the SAM tools
Unpack the SAM tools tarball and cd to the SAM tools source directory.
Build the SAM tools by typing make at the command line.
Choose a directory into which you wish to copy the SAM tools binary, the included library libbam.a, and the library headers. A common choice is /usr/local/.
Copy libbam.a to the lib/ directory in the folder you've chosen above (e.g. /usr/local/lib/)
Create a directory called "bam" in the include/ directory (e.g. /usr/local/include/bam)
Copy the headers (files ending in .h) to the include/bam directory you've created above (e.g. /usr/local/include/bam)
Copy the samtools binary to some directory in your PATH.
To install TopHat, unpack the tarball and change to the package directory as follows:
tar zxvf tophat-1.2.0.tar.gz
cd tophat-1.2.0/
Now build the package:
./configure --prefix=/path/to/install/directory/
Note: If you copied the SAM tools library and header files to someplace other than /usr/local/, you may need to supply the --with-bam configuration option. For example, if you placed the libbam.a files in /opt/biotools/lib/ and SAM tools .h files in /opt/biotools/include/bam/ then the configure command will become something like this:
./configure --prefix=/opt/biotools --with-bam=/opt/biotools
(in this example tophat and its modules will be installed in /opt/biotools/bin/ directory)
After the configure script finishes successfully, build the Tophat package:
make
Finally, install TopHat:
make install
This will install tophat and its modules into /path/to/install/directory/bin directory. You may want to add that directory to your shell's PATH if it's not there already.

My question is tophat 64 bit doesn't need to compile.

How do I ./configure --prefix=..../../.

And when I run tophat,it shows the error

[Wed Jul 13 16:28:25 2011] Beginning TopHat run (v1.3.1)
-----------------------------------------------
[Wed Jul 13 16:28:25 2011] Preparing output location ./tophat_out/
[Wed Jul 13 16:28:25 2011] Checking for Bowtie index files
[Wed Jul 13 16:28:25 2011] Checking for reference FASTA file
[Wed Jul 13 16:28:25 2011] Checking for Bowtie
Bowtie version: 0.12.7.0
[Wed Jul 13 16:28:25 2011] Checking for Samtools
Error locating program: samtools

If anyone know how to solve

Please tell me.

Thanks

[chenyao]

same problem

Dear louis,

I am the same problem,

Did you fix it?

[Hunny]

Dear louis,

I am the same problem,

Did you fix it?

I guess you need to export the path of samtools to your shell PATH, just using a command like
$ export PATH=/your_samtools_directory/:$PATH

or you can insert the command above in your .bash_profile or .bashrc in you home directory.

Hope it would help you.

Cheers,

[ahmetz]

you need to cop tophat - the precompiled version - into the same folder where your samtools are. and then put that folder in your path as hunny described. it should work after that

[louis7781x]

I guess you need to export the path of samtools to your shell PATH, just using a command like
$ export PATH=/your_samtools_directory/:$PATH

or you can insert the command above in your .bash_profile or .bashrc in you home directory.

Hope it would help you.

Cheers,

That's right export your path in .profile(In mac,use .profile;in linux use .bash_profile or .bashrc)

and relogin,keyin echo $PATH

see PATH wheather insert in your system

[chenyao]

Still

Dear all,

Thank you for your reply.

I still have the same problem:

I export the path as you said:

root@ubuntu:/home/lenovo/# export PATH=/home/lenovo/samtools-0.1.17:$PATH
root@ubuntu:/home/lenovo/# echo $PATH
/home/lenovo/samtools-0.1.17:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

It seems samtools have been added to the PATH, but when I use tophat:

root@ubuntu:/home/lenovo/test_data# tophat -r 20 test_ref reads_1.fq reads_2.fq

[Sat Jul 23 13:13:13 2011] Beginning TopHat run (v1.3.1)
-----------------------------------------------
[Sat Jul 23 13:13:13 2011] Preparing output location ./tophat_out/
[Sat Jul 23 13:13:13 2011] Checking for Bowtie index files
[Sat Jul 23 13:13:13 2011] Checking for reference FASTA file
[Sat Jul 23 13:13:13 2011] Checking for Bowtie
Bowtie version: 0.12.7.0
[Sat Jul 23 13:13:13 2011] Checking for Samtools
Samtools Version: 0.1.17
[Sat Jul 23 13:13:13 2011] Generating SAM header for test_ref
[Sat Jul 23 13:13:13 2011] Preparing reads
format: fastq
quality scale: phred33 (default)
Error locating program: prep_reads
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Who can help me?

[louis7781x]

Dear all,

Thank you for your reply.

I still have the same problem:

I export the path as you said:

root@ubuntu:/home/lenovo/# export PATH=/home/lenovo/samtools-0.1.17:$PATH
root@ubuntu:/home/lenovo/# echo $PATH
/home/lenovo/samtools-0.1.17:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

It seems samtools have been added to the PATH, but when I use tophat:

root@ubuntu:/home/lenovo/test_data# tophat -r 20 test_ref reads_1.fq reads_2.fq

[Sat Jul 23 13:13:13 2011] Beginning TopHat run (v1.3.1)
-----------------------------------------------
[Sat Jul 23 13:13:13 2011] Preparing output location ./tophat_out/
[Sat Jul 23 13:13:13 2011] Checking for Bowtie index files
[Sat Jul 23 13:13:13 2011] Checking for reference FASTA file
[Sat Jul 23 13:13:13 2011] Checking for Bowtie
Bowtie version: 0.12.7.0
[Sat Jul 23 13:13:13 2011] Checking for Samtools
Samtools Version: 0.1.17
[Sat Jul 23 13:13:13 2011] Generating SAM header for test_ref
[Sat Jul 23 13:13:13 2011] Preparing reads
format: fastq
quality scale: phred33 (default)
Error locating program: prep_reads
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Who can help me?

Go the this page

http://seqanswers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7865

or

http://seqanswers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4904

maybe useful for u

[chenyao]

Dear louis, thank you, the problem is fixed. The same as you said, but only one thing different that I should add the tophat to the PATH, "This will install tophat and its modules into /path/to/install/directory/bin directory. You may want to add that directory to your shell's PATH if it's not there already"

[chenyao]

But there is
Anther problem, I use the "export..." command, but every time I open terminal, I have to type this command again to run "TOPHAT". I tried to add this command to .bash_profile or .bashrc, but I can not find this file in home directory.

[louis7781x]

But there is
Anther problem, I use the "export..." command, but every time I open terminal, I have to type this command again to run "TOPHAT". I tried to add this command to .bash_profile or .bashrc, but I can not find this file in home directory.

you can create .bascrc by yourself! and for example, put in /home/chenyao/bin/.bashrc

[chenyao]

Dear louis, I found your method is still a temporary solution. Although I write the command into ".bashrc" file in /home/yaochen, after I shutdown the terminal, the PATH returned to the original set.

[DZhang]

Hi,

Tophat has associated executables, (e.g., prep_reads). When you uncompress the binary archive, there are quite a few executables in addition to tophat. You need to copy ALL of them to your path. In Post #6, the program was not complaining about samtools but missing prep_reads in your path.

Hope this helps.

Douglas

https://www.contigexpress.com

[chenyao]

Hi,

Tophat has associated executables, (e.g., prep_reads). When you uncompress the binary archive, there are quite a few executables in addition to tophat. You need to copy ALL of them to your path. In Post #6, the program was not complaining about samtools but missing prep_reads in your path.

Hope this helps.

Douglas
www.contigexpress.com

Dear Zhang , it fixed the problem, thank you very much!
Still, I have another question , as I need to copy the execuatable files in the PATH, I wonder if there some comman which can copy all the files in a directory. I know "cp -r" command, but it copy the directory not all the files within this directory.

[DZhang]

cp /your_directory/* /your_path/.

* or any wild card is important here in the command.

[Michael.James.Clark]

But there is
Anther problem, I use the "export..." command, but every time I open terminal, I have to type this command again to run "TOPHAT". I tried to add this command to .bash_profile or .bashrc, but I can not find this file in home directory.

Copy .bash_profile/.bashrc to ~/