Is Perseus the only way to use photon?

[biodavidjm]

Our package artMS supports the generation of the input files required originally by PHOTON when was not part of Perseus. I think Photon had a legacy option that we cannot find anymore. The question is:

Is Perseus / Windows officially the only way to use Photon? If so, we would remove the function that is currently available in our package to generate photon inputs. Alternatively, if there is any way that photon could be used outside of Perseus, we will be happy to support it.

Please, let me know. Thanks a lot

[jdrudolph]

Thank you for your interest! There are several ways to run PHOTON from within or without Perseus.

1. Use PHOTON via Perseus. Especially interesting for non-developers.
2. Run legacy mode by utilizing e.g. the docker file and the run.sh script. This will make PHOTON accessible in the Browser but with much less options regarding choice of network compared to Perseus.
3. Developers can install and directly use the phos Python package in this repository that provides all the functions to run the analysis. The phos/app.py and phos/pipeline.py can give some hints. Provides all the flexibility and functionality.

Due to me switching fields last year I unfortunately won't be able to contribute much code wise, but I'm happy to answer questions.

[jdrudolph]

Closing due to inactivity, feel free to reopen