alfpy 1.0.6

Description:

alfpy 1.0.6

alfpy
alfpy is a bionformatics Python package that provides alignment-free framework
to compare biological sequences (DNA/RNA/protein) and infers their
phylogenetic relationships.
alfpy also contains Python scripts with user-friendly command-line interfaces
that let you compare unaligned FASTA sequences with more than 40 distance methods.

Latest source code
The official source code repository is at: https://github.com/aziele/alfpy


Web sites
alfpy is also available as a web app: http://www.combio.pl/alfree



Requirements

Python (https://www.python.org/) version 2.7 or >= 3.3
NumPy (http://www.numpy.org/).



Installation

Option 1: Get the latest official version
Install the latest official version with pip
sudo pip install alfpy
If you are not allowed to use sudo, install alfpy as user:
sudo pip install --user alfpy


Option 2: Get the latest development version
Get it using this shell command, which requires Git:
git clone https://github.com/aziele/alfpy.git
If you don’t feel like using git, just download the package manually as a gzipped tarball.
Unpack the zip package, go to the directory and run the installation:
cd alfpy
python setup.py install
or:
python setup.py install --user



Alfpy usage
The examples of using Alfpy are available at: http://www.combio.pl/alfree/download/.


Testing
To run tests, go to the alfpy source code directory and type:
python -m unittest discover
If you want to test a specific file (e.g. test_word_distance.py), type:
python -m unittest tests.test_word_distance


Contact
Drop us any feedback at: [email protected] or on twitter @a_zielezinski.


License
alfpy is under the MIT license; see LICENSE.txt. Distribution,
modification and redistribution, incorporation into other software,
and pretty much everything else is allowed.