How to Install scikit bio on Windows

1. Download Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition.
2. Start the Visual Studio Installer. It will display a screen with tabs titled "Workloads", "Individual components", "Language packs" and "Installed locations". Select the "Individual components" tab.
3. Scroll down to the "Compilers" section and select "VC++ 2015.3 v140 toolset for desktop (x86,x64)".
4. Click the "Install" button in the bottom right corner. The installation process will take some time. When it is finished, you can close the Visual Studio Installer.
5. Download the latest source from the scikit-bio Github repository.
6. Using a tool like 7-zip, unzip it at your Anaconda directory (probably something like C:\Users\YOURNAME\Anaconda2).
7. In a text editor, open the setup.py file in the scikit-bio-master folder. Look for the line that reads if sys.platform == 'win32':. Change it to if sys.platform == 'win32' or sys.platform == 'win64': and save the file.
8. Open a command line type cd C:\Users\YOURNAME\Anaconda2\scikit-bio-master to change to the scikit-bio-master directory. Then type python setup.py install. This will install scikit-bio.
9. When the process is finished, make sure that you have an up-to-date version of the matplotlib graphing library by typing pip install -U matplotlib.