Installing

To use the VCP CLI tool, you will need:

  • Python version 3.10 or greater

  • Access to a command-line terminal or shell on a MacOS or Linux systems.

  • For the benchmarks commands, you will need to be running on an Intel/AMD64 architecture CPU with NVIDIA GPU, running Linux with NVIDIA drivers.

  • For other commands (e.g. data) you will need a Virtual Cell Platform account (register here)

From PyPi

The Virtual Cells Platform (VCP) CLI is published to PyPi.

We recommend installing the tool into a fresh virtual environment, for example using venv, to create an activate a virtual environment:

python -m venv vcp-cli
source vcp-cli/bin/activate

It can be installed with:

pip install vcp-cli

Update Package

To update the package to the latest version, run:

pip install --upgrade vcp-cli