bioperl-run for Debian ---------------------- (Extracted from the INSTALL file) ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES Some important environment variables you need to be aware of. Variable Values Comment -------------------------------------------------------------------- PHYLIPVERSION 3.5, 3.6 If you want to run Phylip3.6 you need to set this env variable to 3.6 BLASTDIR DIR PATH Point to the directory where BLAST is installed GENSCAN_DIR DIR PATH Point to the directory where HumanIso.smat file is installed EPONINEDIR DIR PATH Point to the directory where eponine_scan.jar is installed PAMLDIR DIR PATH Point to directory where PAML is installed Generally the all-caps program name concatenated to 'DIR' patten for environment variable names is followed for most programs. However there are some exceptions (some require an underscore between the program name and 'DIR'), so check the documentation for the module you're interested in using. Note that for some programs, having the executables in your path is not enough - the correct environment variable still needs to be set, and sometimes it shouldn't point to the executable location, but somewhere else - again, check the documentation.