Making pySCENIC available on Anaconda

[menelson]

Hi guys,

I want to start using pySCENIC on my virtual environment, where I am using miniconda to create the virtualenv and install packages. As a rule, I like to use conda for package installation rather than pip. Indeed, I sometimes find that pip install will just not work when mixing package managers in my miniconda virtuaenvs -- this has happened for a variety of packages, and is usually related to incompatibilities with building wheels using PEP 517. Unfortunately the same is true of pySCENIC: I am completely unable to install pySCENIC in my miniconda virtualenv with a `pip install pyscenic', again due to this PEP 517 incompatibility. I've tried in vain to find a solution to this problem, and I think a helpful thing would be to make pySCENIC available to miniconda users via the bioconda channel, as is done for the related arboreto package:

https://anaconda.org/bioconda/arboreto

This way, I and other miniconda users could install pySCENIC with the same package manager as arboreto (and indeed many computational biology packages which make use of bioconda channels, as I am sure you are aware), which should resolve any conflict related to mixing the conda and in pip package management in virtual environments.

Would it be possible to add pySCENIC to the bioconda channel so that users have the option to install with the conda package manager?

Thanks!