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Installation on Docker¶

In order to install the program, you need to install Docker first.

Installing Docker¶

To install Docker follow the docker website instructions and post-install instructions.

For Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install curl
sudo curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | sh

For Windows: you might need to do more steps as described here

You need to add a user to docker group in order to give docker run permission to the user

sudo groupadd docker                
sudo usermod -aG docker [username] # replace [username] with your user name

You need to have the muscle.sh script available in order to update, and run a Muscle X program on docker. You can download muscle.sh by

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/biocatiit/musclex/master/musclex.sh && chmod +x musclex.sh

Running the program by running musclex.sh following by a program shortcut

./musclex.sh [program shortcut]

For example, run this command to run Equator

./musclex.sh eq

If you are using ssh to log into a remote server to run musclex there use the following instead

./musclex.sh -s eq

To see previous versions

./musclex.sh -l

To run a specific version

./musclex.sh -v 1-14.11 eq

To update musclex

./musclex.sh -u

To see all options

./musclex.sh -h