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# BayBE — A Bayesian Back End for Design of Experiments
-The **Bay**esian **B**ack **E**nd provides a general-purpose toolbox for Bayesian Design of
-Experiments, focusing on additions that enable real-world experimental campaigns.
+The Bayesian Back End (**BayBE**) provides a general-purpose toolbox for Bayesian Design
+of Experiments, focusing on additions that enable real-world experimental campaigns.
Besides functionality to perform a typical recommend-measure loop, BayBE's highlights are:
- Custom parameter encodings: Improve your campaign with domain knowledge
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- Transfer learning: Mix data from multiple campaigns and accelerate optimization
- Comprehensive backtest, simulation and imputation utilities: Benchmark and find your best settings
- Fully typed and hypothesis-tested: Robust code base
-- The entire state of your campaign is fully de-/serializable: Useful for storing results in databases
+- All objects are fully de-/serializable: Useful for storing results in databases or use in wrappers like APIs
## Installation
### From Package Index
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```bash
-conda install --channel=conda-forge baybe
+conda install -c conda-forge baybe
```
A certain released version of the package can installed by specifying the
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pip install -e .
```
+If you need to add additional dependencies make sure to use the correct syntax
+including `''`:
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+```bash
+pip install -e '.[dev]'
+```
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### Optional Dependencies
There are several dependency groups that can be selected during pip installation, like
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