"The Dowser program surveys a protein molecule's structure to locate internal cavities and assess the hydrophilicity of these cavities in terms of the energy of interaction of a water molecule with the surrounding atoms."
To install Dowser in a linux machine, you need gfortran compiler. Dowser calls g77 compiler, but apparently is obsolete. You need to create a copy in the /usr/bin path (or where gfortran is) of gfortran named g77 through:
$sudo cp /usr/bin/gfortran /usr/bin/g77
The next step is to download the Dowser program in:
Extract the file. A folder named dowser will appear. Then:
$cd dowser/
$sudo ./Install
The Dowser program will begin the install process. When it ends, you need to source a file called dowserinit. That file create the variables DOWSER and DOWSER_MACH, and also export the location of the Dowser program to your PATH. That file is written in csh:
setenv DOWSER /tmp_mnt/PROGRAMS/DOWSER
setenv DOW_MACH sgi-mips4
set path = ( $path $DOWSER/bin $DOWSER/bin/$DOW_MACH )
I tried to source that file, but I got problem with the setenv command, because it can't be found. I tried to indicate that the file is in csh putting in the top of the file #! /bin/csh -f, but the commands still can't be founded. So I convert that file in a "bash style":
#!/bin/bash
export DOWSER=/mnt/hgfs/Python/exe_linux/dowser
export DOW_MACH=linux
export PATH=$PATH:$DOWSER/bin:$DOWSER/bin/$DOW_MACH
The final step is to source the dowserinit file through:
$source dowserinit
Thats all. The Dowser program will work fine. More info in
