Project of Tongji_Software

Welcome to use Alpha Ant, a computational tool for pathway design and reconstruction. With full consideration of metabolic burden and some useful functions, we provide an efficient and powerful pathway design guide.

Click here to use Alpha Ant You can also download this file and use our tool locally.

Requirements

If you want to use our tool locally, you should pay attention to theses requirements:

• Python >= 3.5
• Django >= 2.0
• RDKit: a collection of cheminformatics software
• cobra: a tool used for genome-scale modeling of metabolic networks in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes

How to use Alpha Ant?

We strongly recommend to use our web tool, which can search with high-speed

Still, you can download our tool and use locally by Django after satisfying the requerements.

• download git clone https://github.com/igemsoftware2018/Team_Tongji_Software.git

• run python cd Team_Tongji_Software/Alpha_Ant python manage.py runserver

  Then the website will be generated according to the local ip. For example, "http://127.0.0.1:8000/Alpha%20ant/".

• Enter the web address in the browser, and use our tool locally.

  Here is the video about how to use Alpha Ant

  If you want to know more about our project. Please come to our iGEM wiki

Have fun using Alpha Ant!!!