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Getting Started
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System Requirements & Installation
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* Python 2.7
* The whole pipeline was designed and tested on Linux systems (CentOS, Arch)
* SyConn is based on the packages `ELEKTRONN <http://elektronn.org>`_, `Knossos Python-Tools <https://github.com/knossos-project/knossos_python_tools>`_
* `KNOSSOS <http://knossostool.org/>`_ is used for visualization and annotation of 3D EM data sets.

For installation instructions see :ref:`installation <installation>`. We recommend using `Anaconda <https://www.continuum.io/downloads>`_ as
python distribution.

An code example can be found in section :ref:`examples <examples>`