The Disperse software uses a couple of programs and data files not included in the distribution. The configuration file is used to specify the location of these programs and files.
By default, Disperse will use the config file 'config/default_config.properties', but an alternative file may be specified using a command line option. Path entries may be relative or absolute. Relative entries are interpreted relative to the location of the config file itself.
The default entries of the config file use Unix-style pathnames. If installing to a Windows system, use Windows path names, e.g. 'C:\Program Files\Disperse\data\CCDS.20070227.txt'.
Do not use double quotes (") around file names with spaces in them (on Windows systems). Disperse adds quotes, and would be confused if there were quotes already.
Like the settings file, a config file is made up of several property key-value pairs, one per line, such as:
key1=value1 key2=value2
The available properties and their meaning are as follows:
Most users will NOT need to change this
Most users will NOT need to change this
Most users WILL need to change this, depending on the location of the blast data directory.
Most users will NOT need to change this
Most users WILL need to change this, depending on the location of the blast bin directory.