The latest version of Genome Workbench is version 1.1.4. For announcements about latest releases, please visit the gbench-announce@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov subscription page.
Genome Workbench is available in precompiled form for Windows and MacOS X. A source package is also available; this source package will build on Windows, MacOS X, and various flavors of Linux and Unix.
| Windows 2000/XP/Vista | gbench-win2k-1.1.4.exe |
| MacOS X 10.5 | gbench-macos-10.5u-1.1.4.dmg |
| Linux x86 (i686 RPM) | gbench-linux-1.1.4.i686.rpm |
| Linux x86 (x86_64 RPM) | gbench-linux-1.1.4.x86_64.rpm |
| Linux x86 (32-bit tarball) | gbench-linux-i686-1.1.4.tgz |
| Linux x86 (64-bit tarball) | gbench-linux-x86_64-1.1.4.tgz |
| Source | gbench-src-1.1.4.tgz |
The Windows 2000/XP package is a native Windows installer. Once you have downloaded the installer executable, simply double-click it in Windows Explorer to launch this. The installation wizard will then walk you through the steps of installing the main executable and registering its components.
Once Genome Workbench is installed, you should have an icon on your desktop and an item in your start menu to launch Genome Workbench.
The MacOS X package is an executable disk image. Once you have downloaded this image, you should be able to launch the application by double-clicking on it in Finder.
The latest snapshot of Genome Workbench supports MacOS X version 10.4 only. Versions earlier than version 0.12.2 support only MacOS X version 10.3 due to differences in the way that the operating system handles shared libraries.
The Linux package is provided for 32- and 64-bit Intel platforms, and is known to work with SuSE Linux 9. The provided tarball can be unzipped into the root of the file system, and will install the software into /opt/ncbi/gbench-1.1.4 Once unpacked, you should add the path /opt/ncbi/gbench-1.1.4 to the global or user path to gain execution access. Genome Workbench can then be executed using the gbench symlink, also located in the bin/ subdirectory. It is recommended that this bin/ directory be added to users's $PATH variable for ease of execution.
Example 32-bit install: (as root, unpack:) cd / tar xzvf .../gbench-linux-i686-1.1.4.tgz (as a user, execute:) /opt/ncbi/gbench-1.1.4/bin/gbench (from a path variable:) export PATH=$PATH:/opt/ncbi/gbench-1.1.4/bin gbench
Genome Workbench is provided in source form. The source package is placed in the public domain, and is freely available for anyone to modify and redistribute, in either binary or source form. Details of the NCBI Public Domain License can be found here
Genome Workbench makes use of the NCBI C++ Toolkit. A subset of the public toolkit source code is included in the Genome Workbench source package. While the latest versions of Genome Workbench can be found here, Genome Workbench is also available as part of the NCBI C++ Toolkit's public releases.
The scope of the build process is documented as part of the NCBI C++ Toolkit. There are a couple of specific details that should be remembered when building Genome Workbench: