W-MAP

Tutorial

To get W-Map up and running on a 64-bit Linux / 32-bit Windows machine the following steps will be needed:

1. Download WMap from here

2. Extract all files in the package to the directory you want to install WMap

3. (Required for 32-bit Windows platform) Download pre-computed genome from here, extract and put all pre-computed genome in the same directory

4. Execute ./WMap.jar from command line (Linux) / WMap.jar (Windows) to start WMap GUI.

5. Select read file, format, sequence type and output file name to begin mapping; or (64-bit Linux only) pre-compute new genome

6. Read the output file for results

*sample reads file can be downloaded here