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+# SALMON 🐟
+SALMON: Survival Analysis Learning with Multi-Omics Neural Networks
+
+### SALMON architecture with the implementation of Cox proportional hazards regression networks:
+![SALMON Architecture](figures/Figure1.png)
+
+### Publication:
+Huang, Zhi, et al. "SALMON: Survival Analysis Learning with Multi-Omics Neural Networks on Breast Cancer." Frontiers in Genetics 10 (2019): 166. [[Link]](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2019.00166/abstract)
+
+
+## 1. Installation
+* Download Anaconda from https://www.anaconda.com/download/#linux/ with python 3 version.
+* Install Pytorch, tqdm, imblearn, and lifelines.
+
+```bash
+conda install pytorch torchvision -c pytorch
+conda install -c conda-forge tqdm
+conda install -c conda-forge imbalanced-learn
+conda install -c conda-forge lifelines
+```
+
+### Alternative installation
+To install the libraries with the specified version, `requirements.txt` can be used as a configuration file with the following command:
+
+```bash
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+```
+
+## 2. Run the main routine
+
+
+```bash
+cd experiments
+python main.py
+```