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Galaxy wrapper for Glimmer gene calling
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This wrapper is copyright 2012-2013 by Björn Grüning.

This is a wrapper for the command line tool of Glimmer3_.

.. _Glimmer: http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/glimmer/

Glimmer is a system for finding genes in microbial DNA, 
especially the genomes of bacteria, archaea, and viruses. 
Glimmer (Gene Locator and Interpolated Markov ModelER) uses interpolated 
Markov models (IMMs) to identify the coding regions and distinguish them from noncoding DNA.

S. Salzberg, A. Delcher, S. Kasif, and O. White. Microbial gene identification using interpolated Markov models, Nucleic Acids Research 26:2 (1998), 544-548.

A.L. Delcher, D. Harmon, S. Kasif, O. White, and S.L. Salzberg. Improved microbial gene identification with GLIMMER, Nucleic Acids Research 27:23 (1999), 4636-4641.

A.L. Delcher, K.A. Bratke, E.C. Powers, and S.L. Salzberg. Identifying bacterial genes and endosymbiont DNA with Glimmer. Bioinformatics (Advance online version) (2007). 


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Installation
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Since version 0.2 the recommended installation procedure is via the `Galaxy Tool Shed`.

.. _`Galaxy Tool Shed`: http://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/view/bjoern-gruening/glimmer3

To install Glimmer3 manually, please download Glimmer3 from:: 

    http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/glimmer/glimmer302.tar.gz

and follow the installation instructions. You can also use packages from your distribution like http://packages.debian.org/stable/science/tigr-glimmer

To install the wrapper copy the glimmer3 folder in the galaxy tools
folder and modify the tools_conf.xml file to make the tool available to Galaxy.
For example::

	<tool file="gene_prediction/tools/glimmer3/glimmer_w_icm.xml" />
	<tool file="gene_prediction/tools/glimmer3/glimmer_wo_icm.xml" />
	<tool file="gene_prediction/tools/glimmer3/glimmer_build-icm.xml" />

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History
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- v0.1: Initial public release
- v0.2: Add tool shed integration

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