Getting-started-in-the-lab

If you don't want to set up a python environment you can instead run the tutorials on google colab

If you want to make a local enviroment then follow these directions

Install Anaconda onto your computer Link

If on windows open the Anaconda prompt which was just installed, and if on Mac/linux just open a terminal window and type this command

conda create --name bmtk python=3.8

Then run the follow commands to activate your environment and install the python packages. If you are on a windows computer, to install neuron visit this link instead of using pip. You can also build bmtk from their GitHub but that should not be needed for now. For the next step, download the GitHub repo on this page (just scroll up till you see the green button that says 'Code') and download the zip version, so you have the requirements.txt file on your computer. Then make sure to change your directory to this the one you have the downloaded folder with the requirements.txt file. Note: For windows computer, just use pip install bmtk on line 13 below.

conda activate bmtk
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install bmtk, neuron

Once these packages are all installed you should be good to go. You can run the tutorials by lauching jupyter notebook with this command

jupyter-notebook

Then simply run the tutorials. If you wish to do some serious coding I would advice installing an IDE like VS code and linking your anaconda environment with VS code. If you need help with this step or any other step in this document i would try googling things like how to set up a conda enviroment and how to get started with python coding in VS code.