This is a Perl interface to the HTS Library. See http://htslib.org

## ONE-STEP INSTALLATION

In the root directory of this distribution you will find the script
INSTALL.pl. Running this will download the latest versions of this
module and HTSlib into a temporary directory, compile them, test and
install Bio-DB-HTS.

Simply run:
```
  perl INSTALL.pl
```

It will not install HTSlib at the system level - if desired this can be accomplished by changing into the downloaded
htslib sub-directory and typing
```
  #These commands may need sudo...
  #make and install the program
  make install
  #refresh the installed library listed
  ldconfig
```

When invoked, Bio::DB::HTS will try to use htslib from its downloaded location. If this is
removed it requires htslib to be installed on the system, or LD_LIBRARY_PATH (DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH on Mac OSX) should
contain the directory containing libhts.so.

Alternatively
```
  perl INSTALL.pl --static
```
will install a version of Bio::DB::HTS. Be aware that this option depends on your system supporting it, and upgrades to HTSlib will require a
rebuild of Bio::DB::HTS.

## MULTI-STEP INSTALLATIONS

You may require a more custom install e.g. htslib in a specific directory or statically included, or Bio::DB::HTS installed in a specific location.

Bio::DB::HTS supports a wide range of install configurations, with two scripts - Build.PL and INSTALL.pl.

For a list of the ways it can be used, with examples in action see
https://github.com/Ensembl/Bio-HTS/blob/master/scripts/build_options.sh
(link to scripts/build_options.sh in the Bio::DB::HTS GitHub repo at https://github.com/Ensembl/Bio-HTS)

Typically these will involve downloading, compiling and installing htslib, followed by downloading compiling and installing Bio::DB:HTS.


### TROUBLESHOOTING

If you encounter problems during compiling, you may need to edit
Build.PL so that extra_compiler_flags matches the CFLAGS and DFLAGS
settings in the HTSlib Makefile.  Here are some common problems:

1. When building this module, you get an error like the following:
relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when
making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

To fix this, edit the Makefile in the Samtools distribution by adding
"-fPIC" to the CFLAGS line. While you're at it, you may also wish to
get rid of a bunch of unused variable warnings that appears under
recent versions of gcc. The modified CFLAGS will look like this

  CFLAGS= -g -Wall -Wno-unused -Wno-unused-result -O2 -fPIC #-m64 #-arch ppc

Then do "make clean; make" in the Samtools directory to recompile the
library. After this you should be able to build this module without
errors.

2. When building this module, you get an error about a missing math
library.

To fix this, follow the recipe in (1) except add -m64 to CFLAGS so it
looks like this:

  CFLAGS=	-g -Wall -O2 -fPIC #-m64 #-arch ppc

## TESTING AND CONTRIBUTING

You can obtain the most recent development version of this module via
its GitHub site at https://github.com/Ensembl/Bio-HTS. Please
feel free to submit bug reports, patches, etc. via GitHub.

### AUTHOR

Rishi Nag <rishi@ebi.ac.uk>
based on Bio::DB::Sam by Lincoln Stein


### COPYRIGHT

Copyright [1999-2016] Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute

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you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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