Installation

bletl is available through PyPI:

pip install bletl

For Developers

You can use bletl by installing it in your Python environment.

clone it git clone https://github.com/JuBiotech/bletl
cd bletl
pip install -e . to install it into your (activated!) Python environment in "editable mode"

Contributing

The easiest way to contribute is to report bugs by opening Issues.

If you want to contribute, you should...

Clone bletl
Create a new branch
Make changes on your feature-branch
Open a Pull Request

Usage and Citing

bletl is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0.

When using bletl in your work, please cite the Osthege & Tenhaef et al. (2022) paper and the corresponding software version.

Note that the paper is a shared first co-authorship, which can be indicated by ¹ in the bibliography.

@article{bletlPaper,
  author   = {Osthege$^1$, Michael and
              Tenhaef$^1$, Niklas and
              Zyla, Rebecca and
              Müller, Carolin and
              Hemmerich, Johannes and
              Wiechert, Wolfgang and
              Noack, Stephan and
              Oldiges, Marco},
  title    = {bletl - A Python package for integrating {B}io{L}ector microcultivation devices in the {D}esign-{B}uild-{T}est-{L}earn cycle},
  journal  = {Engineering in Life Sciences},
  volume   = {22},
  number   = {3-4},
  pages    = {242-259},
  keywords = {BioLector, feature extraction, growth rate, microbial phenotyping, uncertainty quantification},
  doi      = {https://doi.org/10.1002/elsc.202100108},
  url      = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/elsc.202100108},
  eprint   = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/elsc.202100108},
  year     = {2022}
}

@software{bletl,
  author       = {Michael Osthege and
                  Niklas Tenhaef and
                  Laura Helleckes and
                  Carolin Müller},
  title        = {JuBiotech/bletl: v1.1.0},
  month        = feb,
  year         = 2022,
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  version      = {v1.1.0},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.6284777},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6284777}
}

Head over to Zenodo to generate a BibTeX citation for the latest release.

Metadata

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