Install BIODICA


Requirements

  • Make sure that Java is installed on your computer. Java 1.8 or later version is required. If not, please refer to this link to download and install Java.
  • Make sure that Python is installed on your computer. Python 3.8 or later version is required. You then need to make sure that python command can be run from the command line.
  • Install the stabilized-ica python package (version >= 2.0.0) and make sure it is accessible from the command line. You can refer to this link for installing instructions.
  • As a sanity check, please run the following command on your terminal python -c"import sica". If python and stabilized-ica are correctly installed on your computer, no error message should be returned.
* For Linux users, a possible error may come from the fact that python 3 is only accessible with the command python3 (python command is either not found or associated with python 2). To solve such a problem a possible solution consists in running the following command line sudo apt-get install python-is-python3.

  1. Download BIODICA and unzip it into a local folder.

    2. Download BIODICA

  2. Make sure that the name of the local folder does not contain spaces and hyphens, otherwise certain functions will not work. Do not use the default name "BIODICA-master" which will be suggested after downloading the repository!

Originally, BIODICA used a MATLAB implementation for ICA computations. Now the python implementation of stabilized-ica package is used by default in BIODICA but MATLAB is still accessible with the following setup instructions...

More details for configuring MATLAB...