Problems with the full installation

[bclaridge1]

When going through the full installation instructions, I found several problems. Specifically, I did not run the run_to_setup script due to it causing errors running on an HPC. The following concerns going through setting up the main directory and databases in steps 2-8.

1. In step 2.1 batch_hmmpress.pl is called but the Accessory_scripts.tgz is not uncompressed until step 4.

2. The link in step 6 (http://bcb.unl.edu/dbCAN2/download/Databases/dbCAN-old@UGA/dbCAN-fam-HMMs.txt) downloads an html file and not a .txt. But I was able to find the v14 version of this file.

3. Downloading the test files returns at 403 HTTP error response. I was not able to find an available version of the test files.

• wget -c https://figshare.com/ndownloader/files/43500597 -O METABOLIC_test_files.tgz

I was able to resolve issues 1-2 but not 3. Even fixing the first and second issues in the installation would save others time. You might also consider providing a dockerfile for this program.

[Haolius]

Hello, can you tell me how you solved the second part? Thank you very much.

[brandonclaridge]

It doesn't seem to be working now but I was able to navigate to either https://bcb.unl.edu/dbCAN2/download/Databases or https://bcb.unl.edu/dbCAN2/download and find it there.

[mayurkedare-bio]

This link should work: http://dbcan-hcc.unl.edu/download/Databases/dbCAN-old@UGA/dbCAN-fam-HMMs.txt

If you navigate manually it redirects to this link.

The issue was the web address was changed from bcb.unl.edu to dbcan-hcc.unl.edu

[ElsaMMendes]

hello, for problem 3, you can download the folder in https://figshare.com/ndownloader/files/43500597 locally and then copy it on HPC if your using one.

in dependencies, it is righten "gdown (for downloading METABOLIC_test_files.tgz)" . didn't tried it but could work