
AIM Automatic Image processing system for Microarray data

Demo 2.0 (c) Mathias Katzer, Bielefeld University

This software package is to be used for noncommercial research purpose
only, unless otherwise stated (GUI programs are released under GPL,
see source files in the package).  For source code licenses for the
internal image processing libraries, contact the author,
please. Nonexclusive licenses are freely available for research
purposes.


This package should work on any Linux i386 system. It contains binary programs
linked against GCC/G++ 2.95.4 libraries, so you may have to install those
libraries from your Linux distribution.

Also required are:

 -libxml2
 -Gnome 1.4 libraries
 -libtiff, libpng and libjpeg

All these are contained in all major Linux distributions.

Installation:

 Extract the tar archive:

	tar xzvf aim-dist.tar.gz

 Become root and change to the aim-dist directory. Execute the
 compilation and installation script:

         bash ./compile-aim

 In case you do not want to install blindly, look into 'compile-aim'. Only the
 'make install' calls and the copying of executables from the bin subdirectory
 require root permissions. Be sure to install the aimlib library before all
 other components. 


 