DEVELOPER.txt

CellProfiler and CellProfiler Analyst are distributed under the GNU General 
Public License.
See the accompanying LICENSE file for details.

Developed by the Broad Institute
Copyright 2003-2009

http://www.cellprofiler.org
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The CellProfiler Analyst project is developed in Python and tested under Mac 
OSX 10.5, Windows XP, and to a lesser extent some versions of Linux.


Code may be checked out from our SVN repository here:
  https://svn.broadinstitute.org/CellProfiler/trunk/CPAnalyst/


To run the developer version, you will need Python 2.5 and the following python 
packages:

 - wx 2.8.10
 - MySQLdb 1.2.2
 - pysqlite2 (if using SQLite)
 - numpy 1.3
 - scipy 0.7
 - matplotlib 0.98 (for plotting functionality)
 - PIL 1.1.6

It might be possible to run CPAnalyst with other versions of Python or
these packages.

CellProfiler Analyst can be run from a terminal as follows:
 % python CPAnalyst/cpa/cpa.py

Some functionality of CPAnalyst depends on having an installation 
of CellProfiler 2.0's source code available and on the PYTHONPATH.
  https://svn.broadinstitute.org/CellProfiler/trunk/CellProfiler/

Classifier using MySQL can be sped up by installing the UDF in
mysql_plugins/classify.c. To add this function to MySQL, compile
classify.c to classify.so, and put this in a directory on the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH for MySQL, then execute this statement within MySQL:
mysql> CREATE FUNCTION classifier RETURNS INTEGER SONAME 'classify.so';


There is a developers mailing list, to subscribe, send mail to 
   cpa-dev-request@broadinstitute.org
with the word 'subscribe' in the subject.