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+# ATLANTIS
+
+R package for biomarker/depenedency relationship discovery (via learning random forests 
+of conditional inference trees).
+
+There are two packages contained in this directory which are both necessary
+to run ATLANTIS:
+
+    - partyMod: A fork from the party package which is used to actually
+      build the model.  The fork was necessary to include tweaks to reduce 
+      memory necessary for training with large numbers of input
+      features.  (See https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/party/index.html and
+      "Torsten Hothorn, Peter Buehlmann, Sandrine Dudoit, Annette Molinaro and 
+      Mark Van Der Laan (2006). Survival Ensembles. Biostatistics, 7(3),
+      355--373.)
+
+    - ATLANTIS: The wrapper around party which was used to learn the models
+      for the paper "Defining a Cancer Dependency Map".  Includes some prefiltering
+      of features and biased weights more heavily on sensitive lines.   See 
+      the paper for more details on the specific settings used for each MDP
+      class.