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Description

PyAChemKit is a collection of Artificial Chemistry software written in Python - a library and collection of tools.

Artificial Chemistry (AChem) is a spin-off topic of Artificial Life. AChem is aimed at emergence of life from non-living environment - primordial soup etc.

Installation

To install on Ubuntu (and dervatives such as Xubuntu or Mint), run ::

sudo easy_install achemkit

If you dont have easy_install installed, run ::

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools

This package should work on other Linux distributions and mostly versions of Windows, but is untested.

This package requires the following:

• Python >= 2.6 http://www.python.org/

Some features use the following:

• NetworkX
• GraphViz http://www.graphviz.org/

Optionally, the following can be installed to improve performance:

• Psyco http://psyco.sourceforge.net
• PyPy http://codespeak.net/pypy

Source

The latest version of the source code is available from https://github.com/afaulconbridge/PyAChemKit

The source code additionally requires the following:

• Sphinx >= 1.0 http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
• Make http://www.gnu.org/software/make/
• LaTeX http://www.latex-project.org/
• PyLint >=0.13.0 http://www.logilab.org/project/pylint/
• Coverage http://nedbatchelder.com/code/coverage/

For a Debian-based Linux distrbution --- e.g. Debian, Ubuntu --- these can be installed / updated with::

make setup

(Note, LaTeX is not installed via this method because it is very large. Run sudo apt-get install texlive-full if you want to be able to compile the PDF documentation.)

There is a makefile that will run some useful tasks for you (generate documentation, test, benchmark). This can be accessed by running the following command::

make help

Copyright

This project is licensed under a modified-BSD license. See the fie COPYRIGHT for details.