Installation

DART requires about 38MB of space due to the integrated MetaLig database. DART supports Linux, macOS and Windows on Python >=3.9. To easily install DART with pip, please run the following command in your terminal:

pip install DARTassembler

If you’re not sure what is meant with the terminal or pip, or if pip is not yet installed on your computer, please google or refer to the Troubleshooting and FAQs.

Tip

It is recommended to install DART as regular user, not as sudo user, i.e. please use pip install instead of sudo pip install.

Verify the installation

After the installation is complete, please verify that DART was installed correctly by running the following command in your terminal:

DARTassembler --help

This command will display the help message of DART, confirming that the installation was successful. Please check that the installed DART version is at least 1.1.0: this version introduced major new features such as multi-metallic complexes, haptic ligands, and support for arbitrary complex geometries from 22 different ligand coordination archetypes. We have also made DART significantly faster and removed several dependencies, so pip should usually have no problem installing the latest DART version.

If this command displays any errors, please check the FAQs and if you don’t find the answer, please let us know so we can fix it. Also, if you run DART for the very first time, it may be that there is a short delay of around 30s while pip sets up everything. That is normal and only happens once.

Ready to go? Let’s start off with the Quickstart Guide or check out the DART modules!