Running ACT on UNIX Systems

On Unix the easiest way to run the program is to run the script called act in the ACT installation directory (see the section called Getting and Installing ACT in Chapter 1) like this:

~/act/act

If all goes well you will be presented with a small window with one menu (the File menu). See the section called The ACT Launch Window for a description of this window.

Alternatively you start ACT with the names of two sequence/EMBL/GENBANk files and a file containing the comparison data eg:

~/act/act subject.embl query.embl blast_output.crunch

See the section called UNIX Command Line Arguments for ACT for a list of the other possible command line arguments.

Here is an alternative way to run ACT if the act script doesn't work for you:

cd ~/act

java -Dartemis.environment=UNIX Dad