Install Bowtie2 for mac

[ande]

I am trying to install bowtie2 using terminal. I have the unzipped folder and made it my current directory. 'make' gives this:
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

Not sure what to do.

thanks!

[GenoMax]

You do not need to "make" bowtie2 if you downloaded the pre-compiled executable file for OS X: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bowt...4.zip/download.

You are ready to use bowtie2 right away.

[ande]

so when I try the example from bowtie2:

$BT2_HOME/bowtie2-build $BT2_HOME/example/reference/lambda_virus.fa lambda_virus

I get an error:

-bash: /bowtie2-build: No such file or directory

Although bowtie2-build is in my BT2_HOME folder. Any ideas?

[GenoMax]

$BT2_HOME becomes a variable. It is not a directory name. If you actually made a folder called BT2_HOME then use the command as follows (initial $ is the system prompt (assuming you are in BT2_HOME directory):

$ bowtie2-build example/reference/lambda_virus.fa lambda_virus

Can you post output of following commands from BT2_HOME directory?

$ pwd
$ ls -l

[bio_informatics]

bowtie2-build Genome_File outPutDirectory
#assumed - bowtie 2 binaries are in your Path.