Installation
Before you begin please ensure you have Java SE 1.6+ (Oracle version) installed. If you do not have Java installed you can download it for free here. Please note that OpenJDK may not work correctly due some missing library classes. Please view the relavent section on initialising for your operating system and retrieve the appropriate filetype from the 'downloads' (coming soon) area.
### Java Archive `jar` Download the Java Archive (jar) from [here](http://www.ebi.ac.uk/steinbeck-srv/metingear/download/LATEST/Metingear.jar.zip). To launch the application from the command line as follow use:java -Xms256M -Xmx756M -jar metingear.jar
Although not always required, the memory upper bound (-Xmx) is needed when loading large amounts of data from Resources.
If you will not be loading any Resources you can double clicking the Metingear.jar. If the application does not launch when you double click, you may need to configure how .jar files are opened. You can do so by right clicking the jar and selecting Open With > Java SE
If you are running OS X you can use the application bundle of Metingear. Simply download the disk image .dmg file, extract the image and place the application bundle in your /Applications or ~/Applications folder. Double clicking the Metingear icon will launch the application.
Make sure you have the java runtime installed (see. Initialising the Application), download the windows executable and double click to start. The executable has been tested on Windows XP and Windows 7.
Once you have open the application you are ready to start building metabolic models. Probably the best place to start is to check out the tutorial on Annotating an SBML Model or refer to the manual pages.