Installation

Requires: Python 3.4 or 3.5; additionally Java 1.6+ for validator and SRA conversion

We recommend using a virtual environment for your Python projects. virtualenv is a tool for creating isolated Python runtime environments. It does not install separate copies of Python, but rather it does provide a clever way to keep different configurations of environment cleanly separated.

If you are on Mac OS X or Linux, one of the following two commands will work for you:

$ sudo easy_install virtualenv

or even better:

$ sudo pip install virtualenv

For full instructions on installing and using virtualenv see their documentation.

The ISA API is published on the Python Package Index (PyPI) as the isatools package, and you can use pip to install it.

pip install isatools

Now you're ready to get started!