Monday, 14 May 2012
Biopython tip

Installing Biopython on CentOS is easy. You need the following:

If you haven’t already done so install this (rather large) package. It loosely corresponds to what I was used to in Ubuntu as “build-essential”:

yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'

You also need this package, or it won’t compile (it’s not included in “Development Tools”):

yum install python-devel

Now the fun stuff:

wget http://biopython.org/DIST/biopython-1.59.tar.gz
tar xf biopython-1.59.tar.gz
cd biopython-1.59
python setup.py build
python setup.py test
python setup.py install

Happy biopython’ing!