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Name: scadnano
Version: 0.9.1
Summary: Python scripting library for generating designs readable by scadnano.
Home-page: https://github.com/UC-Davis-molecular-computing/scadnano-python-package
Author: David Doty
Author-email: doty@ucdavis.edu
License: MIT
Download-URL: https://github.com/UC-Davis-molecular-computing/scadnano-python-package/archive/v0.9.1.zip
Description: # scadnano-python-package
        
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        The scadnano Python module is a library for describing synthetic DNA nanostructures (e.g., DNA origami).
        
        
        If you find scadnano useful in a scientific project, please cite its associated paper:
        
        > scadnano: A browser-based, easily scriptable tool for designing DNA nanostructures.  
          David Doty, Benjamin L Lee, and Tristan Stérin.  
          *Technical Report 2005.11841, arXiv*, 2020.  
          [ [arXiv paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11841) | [BibTeX](https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~doty/papers/scadnano.bib) ]
        
        
        ## Overview
        
        This module is used to write Python scripts outputting `.dna` files readable by [scadnano](https://scadnano.org), a web application useful for displaying and manually editing these structures. The purpose of this module is to help automate some of the task of creating DNA designs, as well as making large-scale changes to them that are easier to describe programmatically than to do by hand in scadnano.
        
        Early versions of this project didn't have well-defined versions. However, we will try to announce breaking changes (and possibly new features) under the [GitHub releases page](https://github.com/UC-Davis-molecular-computing/scadnano-python-package/releases). The version numbers in this Python library repo and the [web interface repo](https://github.com/UC-Davis-molecular-computing/scadnano/releases) won't always advance at the same time. However, when a breaking change is made, this will increment the minor or major version numbers in both libraries (version numbers are major.minor.patch, i.e., version 0.9.2 has minor version number 9).
        
        ## Reporting issues
        
        Please report issues in the web interface at the [scadnano web interface GitHub repository](https://github.com/UC-Davis-molecular-computing/scadnano/issues), and report issues in the Python scripting library at the [scadnano Python package GitHub repository](https://github.com/UC-Davis-molecular-computing/scadnano-python-package/issues).
        
        ## Installation
        
        The scadnano Python package requires Python version 3.7 or later. If you do not have that version (or later) of Python installed, follow [this link](https://www.python.org/downloads/) to install it.
        
        Once Python is installed, there are two ways you can install the scadnano Python package:
        
        
        1. pip 
        
            Use [pip](https://pypi.org/project/pip/) to install the package by executing the following at the command line:
            ```console
            pip install scadnano
            ```
        
            If your Python installation does not already have pip installed, you may have to install it. 
            Executing [this Python script](https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py) should work; 
            see also 
            https://docs.python.org/3/installing/index.html 
            or 
            https://www.liquidweb.com/kb/install-pip-windows/.
        
        2. download
        
            As a simple alternative, you can download and place the following files (located in the [scadnano/](https://github.com/UC-Davis-molecular-computing/scadnano-python-package/tree/master/scadnano) subfolder)
            in your PYTHONPATH (e.g., in the same directory as the scripts you are running):
        
            * *required*: [scadnano.py](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UC-Davis-molecular-computing/scadnano-python-package/master/scadnano/scadnano.py) 
            * *optional*: [modifications.py](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UC-Davis-molecular-computing/scadnano-python-package/master/scadnano/modifications.py); This contains some common DNA modifications such as biotin and Cy3. 
            * *optional*: [origami_rectangle.py](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UC-Davis-molecular-computing/scadnano-python-package/master/scadnano/origami_rectangle.py); This can help create origami rectangles, but it is not necessary to use scadnano.
            * *optional*: [_version.py](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UC-Davis-molecular-computing/scadnano-python-package/master/scadnano/_version.py) This ensures that the current version number is written into any `.dna` files written by the library; otherwise it may be out of date. (Which should not matter for the most part.)
            
            Unfortunately, the scadnano package uses the Python package [xlwt](https://pypi.org/project/xlwt/) to write Excel files, so in order to call the method [`DNADesign.write_idt_plate_excel_file()`](https://scadnano-python-package.readthedocs.io/#scadnano.scadnano.DNADesign.write_idt_plate_excel_file) to export an Excel file with DNA sequences, xlwt must be installed. To install, type `pip install xlwt` at the command line.
        
        
        
        
        
        ## Documentation
        
        Online documentation of the package API is located here:
        https://scadnano-python-package.readthedocs.io
        
        
        
        
        
        ## Tutorial
        
        A [tutorial](https://github.com/UC-Davis-molecular-computing/scadnano-python-package/blob/master/tutorial/tutorial.md) shows how to create a "standard" 24-helix DNA origami rectangle using the scripting library.
        
        
        
        
        
        ## Examples
        
        Several example scripts are located in the 
        [examples/](https://github.com/UC-Davis-molecular-computing/scadnano-python-package/tree/master/examples) subfolder. 
        Their output is contained in the 
        [examples/output_designs/](https://github.com/UC-Davis-molecular-computing/scadnano-python-package/tree/master/examples/output_designs) subfolder.
        
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