Downloading the code to run iDynomics

The code to run iDynomics can be sourced in two ways:

A. Download the last official release

The github repository always contains the latest source code, fixes, and logs of current issues. However, if you simply want to run the tool, you can download the latest official release as a zip file. This is available here. This zip file contains:

• Source code
• Input files for specifying simulation parameters
• Matlab and R files for analyzing simulation output
• POV-Ray include files to create movie frames from simulation output
• Tutorial and papers (please do read these first!)
• Utility scripts for starting iDynoMiCS, converting output files, etc.
• iDynoMiCS logo files

Note that this does save you from creating a github account and cloning our repository, but you will not get the latest code (and thus any recent fixes that have been applied)

B. 'Fork' the latest code release on Github

The best way is to get your own copy of our latest code by 'Forking' our repository. To do this: Log in to your github account. Navigate to the kreft/iDynomics repository. Click the 'Fork' button on the top right of the screen. You now have your own copy of our code, in your repository. You will need to clone this to your local machine. On a unix OS machine, you would do this by opening a terminal and typing 'git clone [the web address of your repository, shown on the github page]'. This will now appear as a folder on your local machine.

For details of how to suggest we commit any changes you make to the source code, take a read of this page