How to install tabix
From wubrowse wiki
- WashU EpiGenome Browser used a lot bed/bedGraph like tracks, these files are all compressed and index by tabix
install in Ubuntu through apt-get
apt-get install tabix
install tabix from source code
- download source code from http://sourceforge.net/projects/samtools/files/
- use tabix-0.2.6.tar.bz2 for example here
- uncompress the file
tar jxvf tabix-0.2.6.tar.bz2
- go the folder, type make
cd tabix-0.2.6 make
- copy the binary bgzip and tabix to your path
cp bgzip tabix ~/bin/ sudo cp bgzip tabix /usr/local/bin/ # need root access
