Installation

We highly reccoment installing and using Augusta in a virtual environment.

Virtual environment can be created and activated using conda:

> conda create -n venv_Augusta python=3.7 anaconda
> conda activate venv_Augusta

Dependencies

Docker

Docker installation can be checked via:

> docker info

See Docker for more information.

Python

Python is already installed in the virtual environment venv_Augusta. In case of not using venv_Augusta, Augusta package needs Python version 3.7 or 3.8.

Python version can be checked via:

> python3 --version

See Python for more information.

Install Augusta

from PyPi / pip

> pip install Augusta

from GitHub

> git clone https://github.com/JanaMus/Augusta.git
> cd Augusta
> python setup.py install

Linux non-root user: Augusta uses MEME Suite Docker Image to search for motifs. Therefore, access to Docker is needed to be set via terminal:

  1. create the docker group

> sudo groupadd docker

  1. add your user to the docker group

> sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

See Docker documentation for more information.