Development Environment - Key Libraries

Maven plugins

Anchor uses several key libaries via Maven plugins:

• Project Lombok to reduce boilerplate code and duplication of code. Note its key features.

• spotless to automatically restyle Java code to match the Google Java Style Guide.

Java libraries

• Apache Commons for utility functions and classes.

• Guava for additional data structures and algorithms.

• ONNX Runtime for inference of deep learning models.

• OpenCV (specifically the OpenPNP distribution for Java) for image processing and I/O.

• Bioformats for image I/O.

• metadata-extractor for image metadata I/O.

• ImageJ for image processing functions.

• VavR for additional functional programming constructs.

• JUnit 5 and Mockito for testing.

Python libraries

• Pandas

• NumPy

• scikit-learn for classical Machine Learning algorithms.

• PyTorch and PyTorch Lightning for scripts to train CNN models.

• TensorFlow for exporting to TensorBoard.

• Plotly for data visualization.