What's the recommended way to install ESSCompress?

[karel-brinda]

Hello,

we'd like to include ESSCompress in some of our MS-related benchmarks to compare the associated compression capabilities of both methods, but unfortunately, we haven't found any reasonable way how to make ESSCompress work.

If I clone the repository and run the install script, I immediately run into issues with GCC as different dependencies have different hardcoded compiler names (eg g++-8). I've tried to install ESSCompress via Bioconda, but haven't found any associated package. I only found linux-64 binaries provided here as releases.

What's currently the recommended way of using the program by users? Is Linux-64 required and people are expected to download the binaries from Github?

[amatur]

You can try older versions of ESS-Compress if you do not require output in kff format (v2.2 or earlier from releases), there are less dependencies there that cause issues. I need to check if the hardcoded compiler names in the dependencies can be quickly fixed.

[karel-brinda]

Hi Amatur, thanks for your answer! If ESS-Compress is really intended for users, i.e., it's not just experimental software, is there a chance it could be indeed added to Bioconda? This would solve all the issues I believe.