snell_tool requires Python 3 and a few standard python packages. If you do not already have Python installed, I recommend the Anaconda python distribution, https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/.
Once python and pip -- the Package Installer for Python (this comes automatically with Anaconda) -- are installed, you can install snell_tool by executing the following command at a terminal from within the main snell_tool directory:
pip install .
Once installed, see snell_example.ipynb for usage. To open snell_example.ipynb, first run jupyter notebook from a terminal, and navigate to the file in jupyter's web browser application.
Users can also run the tool without installing python by clicking the launch binder link above.
The paper's figures can be generated with the notebooks in ./figures/. Note that these notebooks require additional dependencies not included in setup.py. The additional dependencies are listed at the beginning of each .py and .ipynb file and are included in standard python distributions, such as Anaconda.
The figure plotting notebooks run faster if the .pickle files found here (https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6rfhvzw4gm1jf8o/AAC5BZSCtqwMiLTTRud8mnN_a?dl=0) are downloaded and placed in the ./figures/ directory.