Installation

Unzip the DOSES archive to the folder of your choice. A folder named scripts will be generated containing the mixup files with the rules and the python post processing scripts. Additionally, there will be two complete_scripts: one .sh for those who want to run DOSES in Linux and one .bat for those who want to run it on Windows. Both scripts produce a final CSV file inside the parent folder.

Running DOSES:

Prerequisites: You need to have Python 2.7 installed and added to the path as well as MinorThird.

You can run the tool using the following line:

• Windows:
  • complete_script.bat. It takes three arguments
  • the path to the exe file of python e.g., C:\program files\python\python.exe,
  • the input file with the contained prescriptions in the necessary format,
  • and the path to the exe file of java e.g., c:\program file\java\jre\bin\java.exe
• Linux:
  • complete_script.sh
  • The input txt file has to be changed inside the script to that one of the user – original file is called common_dosages.txt.

DOSES should run on any Windows and Linux distribution that supports Python, but it has been tested on Windows 7 and 8 professional, and Linux openSUSE 10.2 (X86-64) only.