Installation

The kPAL source code is hosted on GitHub. Supported Python versions for running kPAL are 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, and 3.4. kPAL can be installed either via the Python Package Index (PyPI) or from the source code.

Dependencies

kPAL depends on the following Python libraries:

• NumPy
• h5py
• biopython

The easiest way to use kPAL 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 kPAL, 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.

Latest kPAL release

To install the latest release from PyPI using pip:

pip install kPAL

kPAL development version

You can also clone and use the latest development version directly from the GitHub repository:

git clone https://github.com/LUMC/kPAL.git
cd kPAL
pip install -e .