5/23/2007 BLIMPS version 3.9 a maintenance update

These are the versions of the programs used to make release 14.3 of
the Blocks Database and that are currently used on our web pages:
http://blocks.fhcrc.org

Installation requires an ANSI C compiler on a UNIX system.

1. Block Searcher, LAMA, CODEHOPs and other utilities:
   cd blimps
   make clean, make depend, make install

2. Block Maker
   cd protomat
   make clean, make depend, make install

3. Compiled programs are placed in the lib/ and bin/ directories
   There are pre-compiled versions for Solaris 9, GNU i686 Linux
   and Mac/OSX in the bin/ and lib/ directories.

4. You need to set the environment variable BLIMPS_DIR to be sure
   the programs run correctly. For example, they look for $BLIMPS_DIR/docs/

5. See the examples/ sub-directory for sample program execution.
   Block Searcher is in examples/blimps/
   Block Maker is in examples/protomat/
   CODEHOP is in examples/codehop/

6. Please read the LICENSE file before using the programs.

7. Maintenance of these programs is funded by:
NIH RO1 GM068488 "Maintenance of blocks-based tools for functional genomics"
7/1/03 to 6/30/07

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Jorja Henikoff                                     jorja@fhcrc.org
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center             FAX: 206-667-5889
1100 Fairview AV N, A1-162, PO Box 19024           Seattle, WA 98109-1024
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