Installation

The most direct way to install the package to use it directly is to install it via pip. For now it can be directly installed from github, and in future it will be available on directly on PyPI

pip install git+https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/nestpackage

The package can also just be clone directly from our github package, which is the recommended route if you wish to add additional statistics.

Requirements

The following packages are needed for NEST. They can be installed either via pip, or conda or by any alternative package manager (poetry etc).

Required:

• matplotlib

• networkx

• numpy

• pandas

• scipy

• seaborn

• scikit-learn

The package also requires at least one of the following:

• pandoc

• reportlab

Finally, the following packages are optional and are needed for some statistics:

• motifcluster

• python-louvain