Prerequisites:

• python source
• numpy
• pythonbio
• zlib
• freetype
• libpng
• matplotlib

Installing prerequisites on Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install python-dev sudo apt-get install python-numpy wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg sudo sh setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg sudo easy_install -f http://biopython.org/DIST/ biopython sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev freetype, libpng, and matplotlib can be obtained from sourceforge.net

Building curious_snake:

Simply invoking 'make' in the curious_snake directory should build the necessary libraries included in the checkout (libsvm).

Testing:

To test that the system was setup properly, try the following commands in the python interpreter:

import curious_snake curious_snake.run_experiments_hold_out(["data//data.txt"], "test_run", num_runs=2, upto=200)

If the run on the test data completes successfully, a plot of the results will appear.