# MetaboDirect traning session (Fall 2021)
## User Manual
MetaboDirect user manual can be accesed [here](https://metabodirect.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html#).
## Setting up
### 1. Install Anaconda
Download and install the Anaconda distribution of Python from [here](https://www.anaconda.com/products/individual-b).
### 2. Setting up the command prompt
**(For Windows Users)** Open the *Anaconda Prompt* in Administrator Mode, and enter the following commands:
```
conda install m2-base
conda install -c menpo wget
```
**(Mac Users)** Open your defaul terminal.`ls` and `wget` should already be installed by default, but to confirm please try:
```
which ls
```
and
```
which wget
```
If you get an error message for any of those, please enter the commands specified above for **Windows users**.
### 3. Python package installation
Install the required packages specified in the **MetaboDirect** [installation page](https://metabodirect.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html):
```
pip install <package-name>
```
### 4. MetaboDirect Installation
To install MetaboDirect use:
```
pip install metabodirect
```
To install the latest version you can use
```
pip install --upgrade metabodirect
```
You can check metabodirect version using
```
metabodirect -v
```
Current version 0.2.5 (as of 9/16/2021)
### 5. Example using test data
Go to your Desktop, for most systems the tilde `~` is your Home directory, the Desktop directory is usually on your home directory. TO quickly got o the Desktop you can type
```
cd ~
cd Desktop
```
Create a new directory
```
mkdir metabodirect_training
```
move in to that directory
```
cd metabodirect_training
```
Example data can be downloaded from the MetaboDirect repository, using the following command:
Report file:
```
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Coayala/MetaboDirect/main/example/Report.csv --no-check-certificate
```
or
```
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Coayala/MetaboDirect/main/example/Report.csv -o Report.csv
```
metadata file:
```
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Coayala/MetaboDirect/main/example/metadata.csv --no-check-certificate
```
or
```
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Coayala/MetaboDirect/main/example/metadata.csv -o metadata.csv
```
### 5.1 Check normalization methods
Use the command
```
test_normalization Report.csv metadata.csv Habitat
```
### 5.2 Run Metabodirect
You can test the example data using
```
metabodirect Report.csv metadata.csv -o test_run -g Habitat -f Sampletype solid -n mean -t
```
Once the transformation files are finished networks can be created using:
```
create_networks test_run metadata.csv Habitat
```
## QUESTIONS