BALL  -  Biochemical ALgorithm Library
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                                Release 1.4
	

To install BALL, use the CMake build system.

  * Enter the toplevel directory of BALL (the one containing the
    CMakeLists.txt file and the source and include folders) 

  * Then create a folder "build" and change into it 

  * Call "cmake .." (if you have a contrib directory for BALL, use
	  "cmake .. -DBALL_CONTRIB_PATH=path_to_your_contrib")

  * Type "make"

If you want to build packages (currently mostly interesting on MacOS and
Windows), add the flag "-DBALL_ENABLE_PACKAGING=true" to the cmake command
line and run "make package" instead of a plain make.

On Windows, make sure to run the commands in a Visual Studio command shell.

For further details of the build process, please refer to our trac
http://ball-trac.bioinf.uni-sb.de/wiki/DevelopmentEnvironment

To build the documentation, run "make doc". Alternatively, you can refer
to the online documentation at http://www.ball-project.org/Documentation/

Please help us to improve the quality of this library by sending all the
problems you ran into, all criticism, encouragements, improvements, bug
reports, and wishes for further functionality to 
  
  [email protected]

If you use BALL, please cite our recent publication:
 
  Andreas Hildebrandt, Anna Katharina Dehof, Alexander Rurainski, 
  Andreas Bertsch, Marcel Schumann, Nora C Toussaint, Andreas Moll, 
  Daniel Stockel, Stefan Nickels, Sabine C Mueller, Hans-Peter Lenhof, 
  Oliver Kohlbacher: 

  "BALL - Biochemical Algorithms Library 1.3", 

  2010, BMC Bioinformatics, 11:531


Please have a look at our website as well: 

  http://www.ball-project.org

Have fun!