Installation

DART requires about 470MB of space due to the integrated MetaLig database. DART supports Linux, MacOs and Windows on Python >=3.9 and <=3.13 (due to openbabel-wheel). 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.

If you are using Linux, you also need to install the package libxrender1 if it’s not already installed. For example on Ubuntu, you can install it with the following command:

sudo apt-get install libxrender1

To verify that DART is installed correctly, run the following command:

DARTassembler installtest --path

This command will run a brief test of the assembler, ligandfilters and dbinfo module of DART. Because the --path variable is left empty, it will not save any files. 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!