This Chapter covers the following:
- What types of files are required to run Cellware
- How to modify computer's configurations to run Cellware
- How to download and install Cellware
2.1 System Requirements
In order to run Cellware successfully, your computer must meet the following minimum system requirements.
Windows
1GHz Intel Pentium CPU
Microsoft Windows 95, 98, 2000 and XP
256MB RAM
25MB Free Disk Space
Linux
Linux 2.2.* Kernel on i686 processors
256MB RAM
25MB Free Disk Space
Macintosh
800MHz PowerPC G3 or G4
Mac OS X 10.1 and above
256MB RAM
25MB Free Disk Space
In addition, to submit the job to the grid, Internet connectivity is also needed.
2.2 Installation Instructions
- Download the Cellware ZIP file from the Bioinformatics Institute’s SBG website (http://www.bii.a-star.edu.sg/sbg/cellware). Before you download a file, notice that its byte size is provided on the download page. Once the download has completed, check that you have downloaded the full, uncorrupted software file.
- Unzip the file into your hard drive. This will automatically create a folder “cellware” with several subfolders and files inside.
- Execute the script provided in your Cellware folder. There are 2 scripts provided in the Cellware folder. If you are running windows, execute “cellware.bat” and if you are running Linux/Unix or Mac execute “cellware.sh”. Please note that JRE 1.4.x needs to be preinstalled on the machine. On Unix machines JAVA_HOME environment needs to be set. (Eg: On a bash shell this can be done by typing “export JAVA_HOME=/user/local/jsdk1.4.2”) On Macintoshes, JAVA_HOME environment can be set as “export JAVA_HOME=/usr/”.
- The scripts provided will try to automatically locate your JRE and set the class path for running Cellware. However if it fails to work, you will have to include all the jar files in the “lib” folder into the classpath and invoke org.bii.cellware.GUI.plats.MainFrame class manually.
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