Hidden Markov Models Tool Tutorial

Installation:

The program requires JRE 1.5 or up.

Linux:

After you uncompress HMMTool_Linux.tar.gz file, it will create a directory 'HMMTool-1.0'. Under this directory, there are two subdirectories called 'c++' and 'examples', and two jar files, In the examples directory, there are two files, 'stationsInfo.txt' and 'JavaCPC16_SOND_1979_04.asc' data file. Under 'c++' directory, there is a c++ executable 'mvnhmm' which is created on Redhat Linux. If your machine is not Redhat Linux 2.4.21-32, you need to download MVNHMM toolbox source code, compile it on your machine and copy mvnhmm to HMMTool-1.0/c++ directory.

Mac OS X:

After you uncompress HMMTool_Mac.tar.gz file, it will create a directory 'HMMTool-1.0'. Under this directory, there are two subdirectories called 'c++' and 'examples', and two jar files, In the examples directory, there are two files, 'stationsInfo.tx' and 'JavaCPC16_SOND_1979_04.asc' data file. Under 'c++' directory, there is a c++ executable 'mvnhmm' which is created on Mac OS X.

Command to uncompress *.tar.gz the file on Linux or Unix is

tar -xvzf HMMTool_Linux.tar.gz or tar -xvzf HMMTool_Mac.tar.gz

Window XP:

Use winzip or WinWar extract HMMTool-1.0-WindowsXP.zip to a directory such as HMMTool.

Run HMMTool

Copy 'stationsInfo.txt' and the data file 'JavaCPC16_SOND_1979_04.asc' to your data directory. The user should provide the stationsInfo.txt file in real case.

At Linux or Unix prompt, type
WhereYouInstalledDir/HMMTool-1.0/HMMTool

Window XP:

Navigate to the directory where you installed this package, eg. HMMTool, click HMMTool.bat file. It should bring up a GUI window.