Installation

Recommended

We recommend to install the library from Pypy

$ pip install byotrack

From source

You can also install the latest commit from source

$ git clone https://github.com/raphaelreme/byotrack
$ cd byotrack
$ pip install .

Development

We advise to use UV for development. Please follow the guideline detailed in the Contributing Guide.

For pip–only users, you may install all the dependencies with:

$ pip install .[full] --group dev --group doc

Additional requirements

Some components require additional dependencies that are not installed with the library by default. For these components, you need to install their specific dependencies. Here is the complete list:

• StarDistDetector

  • StarDist (+ Tensorflow): Install StarDist

• IcyEMHTLinker

  • Icy: Download Icy

  • Spot Tracking Blocks plugin: Install an Icy plugin

• TrackMateLinker

  • Fiji: Download Fiji

• TrackOnStraLinker

  • TrackAstra: Install trackastra

For visualization with byotrack.visualize module, you need to install matplotlib