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Documentation for Kirsche¤

Kirsche, connecting the papers.

Kirsche is cherry in German.

Kirsche looks into the citations of the list of paper provided and establishes connections between each other. Kirsche can be used as a command line tool or in your python script.

Demo¤

Lu H, Shaner S, Otte E, Asplund M, Vlachos A. A microfluidic perspective on conventional in vitro transcranial direct current stimulation methods. J Neurosci Methods. 2022; 109761. doi:10.1016/j.jneumeth.2022.109761

Install¤

pip install kirsche

This will leave out many dependencies. To install kirsche together with all the requirements,

pip install "kirsche[all]"

The extras options:

  • all: everything
  • docs: required to build the docs

The Idea¤

The Kirsche command line tool provides a few functionalities:

  1. Download the metadata of the given papers. Papers can be given as a list of doi or a bib file.
  2. Calculate connections between the given papers.
  3. Visualize the connections between the given papers.