Installing

To use the VCP CLI tool, you will need:

  • Python version 3.10 or greater

  • On MacOS or Windows WSL, you will need a terminal app.

  • For the benchmarks commands, you will need to be running on an Intel/AMD64 architecture CPU with NVIDIA GPU, running Linux with NVIDIA drivers.

  • For other commands (e.g. data) you will need a Virtual Cell Platform account (register here)

From PyPi

The Virtual Cells Platform (VCP) CLI is published to PyPi.

It can be installed with:

pip install vcp-cli

Note

It is recommended to install the VCP CLI tool in a virtual environment such as venv to avoid conflicts with other Python packages in your system.