The Gaussian Process Toolbox
Project description
GPy
A Gaussian processes framework in Python.
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[Online documentation](https://gpy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/)
[Unit tests (Travis-CI)](https://travis-ci.org/SheffieldML/GPy)
Continuous integration status: 
Getting started
Installing with pip
The simplest way to install GPy is using pip. ubuntu users can do:
sudo apt-get install python-pip pip install gpy
If you’d like to install from source, or want to contribute to the project (e.g. by sending pull requests via github), read on.
Ubuntu
For the most part, the developers are using ubuntu. To install the required packages:
sudo apt-get install python-numpy python-scipy python-matplotlib
clone this git repository and add it to your path:
git clone git@github.com:SheffieldML/GPy.git ~/SheffieldML echo ‘PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:~/SheffieldML’ >> ~/.bashrc
Windows
On windows, we recommend the . We’ve also had luck with . git clone or unzip the source to a suitable directory, and add an approptiate PYTHONPATH environment variable.
On windows 7 (and possibly earlier versions) there’s a bug in scipy version 0.13 which tries to write very long filenames. Reverting to scipy 0.12 seems to do the trick:
conda install scipy=0.12
OSX
Everything appears to work out-of-the box using  on osx Mavericks. Download/clone GPy, and then add GPy to your PYTHONPATH
git clone git@github.com:SheffieldML/GPy.git ~/SheffieldML echo ‘PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:~/SheffieldML’ >> ~/.profile
Compiling documentation:
The documentation is stored in doc/ and is compiled with the Sphinx Python documentation generator, and is written in the reStructuredText format.
The Sphinx documentation is available here: http://sphinx-doc.org/latest/contents.html
Installing dependencies:
To compile the documentation, first ensure that Sphinx is installed. On Debian-based systems, this can be achieved as follows:
sudo apt-get install python-pip sudo pip install sphinx
A LaTeX distribution is also required to compile the equations. Note that the extra packages are necessary to install the unicode packages. To compile the equations to PNG format for use in HTML pages, the package dvipng must be installed. IPython is also required. On Debian-based systems, this can be achieved as follows:
sudo apt-get install texlive texlive-latex-extra texlive-base texlive-recommended sudo apt-get install dvipng sudo apt-get install ipython
Compiling documentation:
The documentation can be compiled as follows:
cd doc make html
The HTML files are then stored in doc/_build/
Running unit tests:
Ensure nose is installed via pip:
pip install nose
Run nosetests from the root directory of the repository:
nosetests -v
Funding Acknowledgements
Current support for the GPy software is coming through the following projects.
[EU FP7-PEOPLE Project Ref 316861](http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/N.Lawrence/projects/mlpm/) “MLPM2012: Machine Learning for Personalized Medicine”
[BBSRC Project No BB/K011197/1](http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/N.Lawrence/projects/recombinant/) “Linking recombinant gene sequence to protein product manufacturability using CHO cell genomic resources”
MRC Special Training Fellowship “Bayesian models of expression in the transcriptome for clinical RNA-seq”
[EU FP7-KBBE Project Ref 289434](http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/N.Lawrence/projects/biopredyn/) “From Data to Models: New Bioinformatics Methods and Tools for Data-Driven Predictive Dynamic Modelling in Biotechnological Applications”
[EU FP7-ICT Project Ref 612139](http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/N.Lawrence/projects/wysiwyd/) “WYSIWYD: What You Say is What You Did”
Previous support for the GPy software came from the following projects:
[BBSRC Project No BB/H018123/2](http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/N.Lawrence/projects/iterative/) “An iterative pipeline of computational modelling and experimental design for uncovering gene regulatory networks in vertebrates”
[Erasysbio](http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/N.Lawrence/projects/synergy/) “SYNERGY: Systems approach to gene regulation biology through nuclear receptors”
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