Get the Software

The latest InterMine release is hosted on GitHub in the InterMine organization: https://github.com/intermine/intermine

1. Create an account at GitHub.

2. Visit the InterMine GitHub repository at https://github.com/intermine/intermine and click on the “Fork” button in the top right corner of the page.

3. Clone the forked InterMine repo to your local machine where git_username is the name of your GitHub account:

   $ git clone git@github.com:git_username/intermine.git
   

4. Check out the latest stable InterMine release from the ‘’‘master’‘’ branch:

   $ cd intermine
   $ git checkout master
   

   1. The other branches are used by InterMine developers for testing.
   2. If you would like to use a specific release of InterMine, you can use one of our tags

5. To keep track of the original InterMine repo, assign the original repo to a remote called “upstream”

   $ git remote add upstream git@github.com:intermine/intermine.git
   

6. To pull changes in your local repository and merge them into your working files:

   $ git pull upstream
   

   You can also pull changes in your local repository without modifying your files

   $ git fetch upstream
   

   and merge any changes fetched into your working files

   $ git merge upstream/master
   

All InterMine code is freely available under the open source LGPL license.