Biofilm Plugin

For support or additional information feel free to contact Bettina Buttaro (bbuttaro@temple.edu) and Gillian Queisser (gillian.queisser@temple.edu)

Bead-Evaluator: Bead-Evaluator Project Biofilm Plugin: Download Plugin

This repository contains the source code of the VRL-Studio plugin developed for the publication Development of a new bead movement based computational framework shows bacterial amyloid curli reduces bead mobility in biofilms.

Using the Bead-Evaluator:

• Install VRL-Studio
• Open the bead-evaluator.vrlp project in VRL-Studio
• Set paths and properties and invoke the desired computation

Download the slides from the tutorial HERE.

Video Tutorial

How To Build The Plugin

1. Dependencies

• JDK >= 1.8 (tested with JDK 8-13)
• Internet Connection (other dependencies will be downloaded automatically)
• Optional: IDE with Gradle support

2. Configuration (Optional)

If the plugin shall be installed to a custom destination, specify the path in build.properties, e.g.,

# vrl property folder location (plugin destination)
vrldir=/path/to/.vrl/0.4.4/myvrl

Otherwise, the plugin will be installed to the default location (depends on VRL version that is specified in the gradle dependencies).

3. Build & Install

IDE

To build the project from an IDE do the following:

• open the Gradle project
• call the installVRLPlugin Gradle task to build and install the plugin
• restart VRL-Studio

Command Line

Building the project from the command line is also possible.

Navigate to the project folder and call the installVRLPlugin Gradle task to build and install the plugin.

Bash (Linux/OS X/Cygwin/other Unix-like OS)

cd Path/To/Biofilm
bash ./gradlew installVRLPlugin

Windows (CMD)

cd Path\To\Biofilm
gradlew installVRLPlugin

Finally, restart VRL-Studio