Installation¶
The kMer source code is hosted on GitLab. Supported Python versions for running kMer are 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, and 3.4. kMer can be installed either via the Python Package Index (PyPI) or from the source code.
Dependencies¶
kMer depends on the following Python libraries:
The easiest way to use kMer is with the Anaconda distribution which comes with these libraries installed.
Alternatively, you can install them using their binary packages for your operating system.
Although all dependencies will also be automatically installed if they aren’t yet when installing kMer, you may still want to have them installed beforehand. Automatic installation requires compilation from source, which takes a lot of time and needs several compilers and development libraries to be available. The options noted above are often much more convenient.
kMer development version¶
You can also clone and use the latest development version directly from the GitLab repository:
git clone https://git.lumc.nl/j.f.j.laros/k-mer.git
cd k-mer
pip install -e .