Downloads and Installation (CTF)

Downloads and Installation Instructions for CT-FIRE(CTF)

Install MATLAB Compiler Runtime (MCR) software version R2014b (for CTF2.0) MCR for Windows-64 bit systems. The MCR package can be freely downloaded from the Mathworks, Inc.: Windows64 MCR 2014b. Please refer to the Mathworks Website for more detailed installation instructions and troubleshooting.
Download the Windows Standalone application package to a location of user’s choice, and decompress (unzip) it.
To run CT-FIRE double click on the application to launch CT-FIRE.

Install MATLAB Compiler Runtime (MCR) software version R2014b (for CTF2.0) MCR for Mac-64 bit systems. The MCR can be freely downloaded from the Mathworks, Inc.: MAC MCR 2014b. Please refer to the Mathworks Website for more detailed installation instructions and troubleshooting. Please Note: The MCR is compiled with Mac OS X El Capitan, version 10.11.6, and should be compatible with older versions. However, Please see the notices from MathWorks.com for newer macOS versions Here.
Download the Mac Standalone application package to a location of user’s choice, and decompress (unzip) it.
To launch the CT-FIRE APP Right click the APP (ctrl -click) —–>Show Package Contents —-> Contents—->MacOS—->applauncher (right-click and choose open)

Install MATLAB Compiler Runtime (MCR) software version R2014b MCR(for CTF2.0) for Linux-64 bit systems. The MCR can be freely downloaded from the Mathworks, Inc.: Linux MCR 2014b. Please refer to the Mathworks Website for more detailed installation instructions and troubleshooting.
Download the Linux standalone package to a location of user’s choice.
Decompress(unzip) the above package to a working directory of user’s choice .
Edit the shell script file runCTF.sh and edit the path “/YOUR MCR PATH HERE” on line 9 with the location of your MCR installation. Usually, something like “/user/local/MATLAB/MATLAB_Compiler_Runtime/v84” (default MCR path for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS install).
Prior to running the software, the startup script and the application file need to be marked as executable with the +x flag, either under properties menu in a file manager or with and appropriate shell command (chmod +x)
To run CT-FIRE open a terminal and set the working directory to the location of ctFIRE executable (same as step 2) and run “sh runCTF.sh” to start the standalone application. Please Note: These installation instructions assume a general working knowledge of Linux type systems. This version was built and tested with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Bio-Linux 8 (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS), and Scientific Linux 7.0 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) were also tested. Further testing on other distributions is pending.

Download the MATLAB source code package(CT-FIRE 3.0) and decompress (unzip) it.
Browse to CurveLab website to register for an account to sign a licensing agreement, and download the CurveLab 2.1.2 MATLAB package.

 Decompress (unzip) the CurveLab-2.1.2 package to the CT-FIRE source code folder (contains subfolder './CurveLab-2.1.2/fdct_wrapping_matlab/')

In MATLAB, go to CT-FIRE source code folder (contains folders of CurveLab-2.1.2 and FIRE as well as other third-party code) and enter “ctFIRE” at the command window to run CT-FIRE.