MiXCR Installation on different operation systems (More details can be obtained from the following link: https://mixcr.readthedocs.io/en/master/install.html).
MiXCR installation on Mac OS / Linux using Homebrew
Homebrew is a simple package manager developed for Mac OS and also ported to Linux. To install MiXCR using Homebrew just type the following commands:
$ brew tap milaboratory/all
$ brew install mixcr
MiXCR Installation on Mac OS X / Linux / FreeBSD from zip distribution
- Check that you have Java 1.8+ installed on your system by typing in the command line:
$ java -version - Download latest binary distributaion of MiXCR from the release page on GitHub
- Unzip the archive
- Add extracted folder of MiXCR distribution to your PATH variable or add a symbolic link for MiXCR script to your bin/ folder (e.g. ~/bin/ in Ubuntu and many other popular Linux distributions)
MiXCR Installation on Windows
Currently, there is no execution script or installer for Windows. Still, MiXCR can easily be used by direct execution from the jar file.
- Check that you have Java 1.8+ installed on your system by typing in the command line:
$ java -version - Download latest binary distribution of MiXCR from the release page on GitHub
- Unzip the archive
- Use mixcr.jar from the archive in the following way:
> java -Xmx4g -Xms3g -jar path_to_mixcr\jar\mixcr.jar ...
Bcl2fastq2 and FastQC Installation
Details on how to download, install, and execute bcl2fastq2 and FastQC can be obtained from the links below:
Download and install bcl2fastq2: https://support.illumina.com/sequencing/sequencing_software/bcl2fastq-conversion-software/downloads.html
Download FastQC: https://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/download.html#fastqc
Install FastQC: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/s-andrews/FastQC/master/INSTALL.txt
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