--- a
+++ b/setup.py
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+import setuptools
+from distutils.command.build import build
+import subprocess
+import os
+
+ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
+
+with open("README.md", "r") as fh:
+	long_description = fh.read()
+
+class Build(build):
+    """Customized setuptools build command"""
+    def run(self):
+        cmd = ["make"]
+        subprocess.call(cmd, cwd=os.path.join(ROOT, "gsec", "utils"))
+        # run original
+        build.run(self)
+
+
+
+setuptools.setup(
+	name="gsec",
+	version="0.0.1",
+	# For calling the script
+	entry_points={
+		"console_scripts": [
+			'gsec = gsec.gsec:main',
+			'gsec_train = gsec.gsec_train:main',
+		]
+	},
+	author="Isaac Gelman, Nicolas Perez, Natalie Abreu, Shannon Brownlee, \
+	Tomas Angelini, Laura Cao, Shreya Havaldar",
+	description="Automated, generalizable model building tool \
+	for the Sequence Read Archive",
+	long_description=long_description,
+	url="https://github.com/gelman-usc/gsec",
+	packages=setuptools.find_packages(),
+	classifiers=[
+		"Programming Language :: Python :: 3"
+	],
+	python_requires=">=3.6",
+	install_requires=[
+		"pandas",
+		"sklearn",
+		"numpy",
+	],
+	cmdclass= {
+		'build': Build,
+	},
+)