Base code created and developed by Andrew Plested of FMP Berlin to model glutamate receptor gating https://github.com/aplested/aligator. GUI coded and packaged by Samuel Liu and Andrew Penn and the University of Sussex Aligator is distributed under a GPL-3.0 licence. See LICENCE.txt for more information.
The software is compiled for Windows (32-bit) and is expected to runs on Windows versions that support 32-bit and 64-bit applications, although this has not been extensively tested. To run the compiled windows application, unpack the zip file and double-click the Aligator.exe file in the 'Compiled' folder.
Running from source requires Python 2 and depends on: PyQt5 matplotlib numpy importlib
Output for Aligator Gui are as follows:
timestamp_log.txt - Log file for excecution timestamp_mechs.txt - File containing the mechanism for the given run (parameters in spinners)
output.png - Raster image of graph saved by matplotlib output.eps - Encapsulated PostScript of graph saved by matplotlib output.svg - Vector image of graph saved by matplotlib
train_mtempmech_linear.atf - ATF save of trace (usable in stimfit) train_mtempmech_linear.itx - ITX save of trace (usable in igor) train_mtempmech_linear.txt - Plain TXT save of trace
train_mtempmechrate.txt - File containing parameter that would have been changed multiple trials were to be done (Useless for GUI)