Requirements

Hardware

pycrispr has minimal system requirements:

• Memory: 8 GB of RAM (for whole-genome libraries)

• CPU: 1 core (multiple cores recommended for speeding up analsyses)

It can easily be run on an old laptop or from a GNU/Linux virtual machine if you run Windows as your main operating system.

Software

pycrispr requires a Unix environment and has been tested on the following GNU/Linux distributions:

• Fedora 37/38

• Ubuntu 20.04.06

It should also be possible to run pycrispr on MacOS via Conda/Mamba but this has not been tested yet.

All other software dependencies are taken care of by the snakemake workflow management system.

Note

pycrispr makes use of snakemake wrappers, so an Internet connection is required.