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PythonCyc 1.0, November 2014

Overview

The PythonCyc module provides a Python interface to a Pathway Tools application running either locally or remotely. This module has been designed to work on the three platforms supported by Pathway Tools: Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Pathway Tools version 18.5 or above is needed to use this module.

This module has been tested under Python 2.6 and 2.7, IPython 2.1 and IPython notebook.

Installation

Please, consult the HTML file tutorial.html under the doc directory of this package for the installation instruction of PythonCyc and how to start Pathway Tools to be able to use PythonCyc.

Documentation

1. For a tutorial on how to use PythonCyc, please consult the HTML file tutorial.html under the doc directory of this package, or go directly to the tutorial by clicking the following link https://github.com/latendre/PythonCyc/blob/master/doc/tutorial.md

2. For the API documentation of PythonCyc, please consult http://pythoncyc.readthedocs.org.

3. For the latest news about PythonCyc, please consult http://bioinformatics.ai.sri.com/ptools/pythoncyc.html

Author

Mario Latendresse, [email protected]

License

See file LICENSE.

Support

For comments and/or bug reports, send an email to [email protected].

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Eli Bogart to have inspired some implementation details of PythonCyc via PyCyc, Tomer Altman for the Pathway Tools API documentation, and Daniel Weaver for suggesting to implement some specific functions and his design, with Kai Chen, of the beautiful PythonCyc logo.