Download PSAT

PSAT source code is freely available for researchers to setup a local installation of the tool for analyzing genomes not currently supported by the PSAT web server, such as private genomes not yet released to the public.

Download the source RPMs and related files here.

  1. Perl libraries source RPM
  2. Web scripts and associated files source RPM (depends on the PSAT Perl libraries)
  3. Database creation and population scripts tarball (see README for details)
PSAT is supported on a Linux platform. PSAT requires the following packages to run:
  1. PostgreSQL database
  2. Apache web server
  3. Perl
  4. PerlMagick
These requirements are specified in the source RPMs and should be installed automatically with the RPM.

Installation

  1. Copy the source RPMs to your Linux server
  2. Install the source RPMs
    • installs Perl libraries for PSAT into your Perl path
    • installs web files (html and cgi) into your web path - you will need to update your Apache configuration (see below)
  3. Uncompress the tar file with the database scripts
  4. Follow README instructions for creating and populating a database
  5. Add an Apache .conf file specifying an alias for the psat web and cgi directories
  6. Verify the functionality of your installation by browsing to http://yourdomain/psat/index.html