MARSTools

MARSTools contains the commandline version of the tools hosted in the Motif Assessment and Ranking Suite (MARS). There are three major set of tools:

1. Scoring and Classification-Based MARS:
   • SCORE (Assess_by_score.py)
   • run_gimme.py (A wrapper from GimmeMotifs gimme roc)
2. Consistency-Based MARS:
   • run_tomtom.py -- From the MEME-Suite
   • run_fisim.py -- From FISim Tools
3. Enrichment-Based MARS:
   • run_centrimo.py

Setup

To set up MARSTools, follow the following instructions. Clone the MARSTools repository into a directory you want to setup and create a conda environment using the requirements.yml file.

```
git clone https://github.com/kipkurui/MARSTools

#create a MARS conda environment
conda env create -f environment.yml
#Activate the environment
source activate MARS
```