HCS-Tools as KNIME Analytics Platform Extension

Knime provides powerful and flexible means to mine data. However, screening data requires some particular methods, that should be usable with little effort for daily analysis tasks. Therefore the High Content Screening Tools (HCS-Tools) come with a set of nodes to make the life of "screeners" easier.

Installation

Since this extensions is available as trusted community extension, it's available under https://update.knime.com/community-contributions/trusted/{knime.version}

Please follow the installation instructions.

Useful Links

• The KNIME framework
• KNIME community contributions
• HCS Tools Wiki

Development

Since KNIME is an Eclipse application it is easiest to use that IDE. Follow the instruction on KNIME SDK repository to install and confige Eclipse for KNIME development.

To work on this project use File → Import → Git → Projects from Git File → Clone URI and enter this repositorie's URL.

Debug Configuration:

In the main menu of Eclipse go to Run → Debug Configurations... → Eclipas Application → KNIME Analytics Platform and hit Debug.

You might want to change the memory settings in the Arguments tab of the debug configuration by adding:

-XX:MaxPermSize=256m

Installation

Once KNIME Analytics Platform is installed you have the following possibilities:

1. The easiest is to use the p2 update mechanism of KNIME (Help > Install new Software). Find the detailed instructions on the HCS Tools page of the KNIME Community Contributions website.
2. Use eclipse to build the plugins yourself and add them to the plugin directory of the KNIME installation.