II. Installation and getting started

CPA releases

All CellProfiler-Analyst releases can be found here

II.A Mac OS

Copy CellProfiler-Analyst.app to /Applications.

II.B Windows

Run the setup.exe to install CPA and create shortcuts.

II.C Using the example dataset

Download the CPA example dataset from http://cellprofileranalyst.org/ or this link and unzip it to create the cpa_example directory. This directory contains:

  1. example.properties - Configuration file for CPA (see section III).

  2. MyTrainingSet.txt - Example training set file to be used in the Classifier (see section V).

  3. images/ - Images from the screen used in the example.

  4. per_image.csv - Comma Separated Values file for image data. This file was exported by CellProfiler’s ExportToDatabase module.

  5. per_object.csv - Comma Separated Values file for object data. This file was exported by CellProfiler’s ExportToDatabase module.

  6. example_SETUP.SQL - Used by CPA to create an internal database (SQLite). It can also be used to create a MySQL database. This file was exported by CellProfiler’s ExportToDatabase module.

Run the CPAnalyst file created by the install process above. A dialog will appear asking you to select a properties file. Navigate to the cpa_example directory and select the example.properties file. You’re now ready to experiment with CellProfiler Analyst!