EMDash Installation

EMDash can be installed using "easy_install" or you may download the source and use "setup.py"

Download EMDash sources

Dependencies

• PyQt4

  • Python bindings for Nokia's Qt toolkit
  • You will want to install the Qt Library using Nokia's installer package.

  • On Windows, there is a simple to use binary installer for PyQt4.

  • Like other EMEN2 dependencies, PyQt4 is included in EMAN2 binary packages

  • http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/download

Install EMDash

EMDash can be installed using either Python easy_install:

sudo python -m easy_install -U emdash

Note the "-U" flag will upgrade EMDash to the current version if it is already found.

Alternatively, you may install EMDash by downloading the source, unpacking, and running the setup.py script:

Download EMDash

python ./setup.py build
sudo python ./setup.py install

Running EMDash

EMDash includes several programs. To start a basic upload session:

python -m emdash.upload --host http://ncmidb.bcm.edu

Use the --host option to specify the URI of your EMEN2 server.

EMDash with Microscopy GUI

EMDash takes a "-t <mode>" parameter. One of these modes is "-t microscopy", which will provide a user-interface customized for microscopists.

EMDash microscopy mode also takes a "-m <microscope ID>" parameter, pointing to the record in the database that represents the microscope being used. For instance, record 110 in our system is our JEOL 2010F microscope.

python -m emdash.upload --host http://ncmidb.bcm.edu -t microscopy -m <microscope ID>