
			      Xanat 2.0
		   A Graphical Anatomical Database

		  By Bill Press and Bruno Olshausen
	       Washington University School of Medicine
		Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
		      St. Louis, Missouri 63110


The minimum system requirements for using the program are the X window
system and the Unix or Linux operating system.  The latter is not a
strong requirement and can be worked around without much trouble.  The
former is a strong requirement.  In addition, the system must have at
least an 8-bit depth plane colormap that is dynamically allocatable.

There are two main executable programs provided as part of the
Xanat-2.0 distibution.  The first is the main database program, called
xanat, and the second is a program for defining areal boundaries,
called mk_areas.  The source code and makefiles for these two programs
reside in the subdirectories by their respective names.  Once you have
compiled the two programs, move the executables to the bin directory
and put this directory in your path.  Then cd to the pulvinar
directory and run xanat.  See the instructions in the doc subdirectory
for instructions on using the database.


This directory contains the following subdirectories:

doc:		documentation

xanat:		the graphical anatomical database program, xanat.

mk_areas:	a program for defining areas for the anatomical database.

pulvinar:	data for macaque pulvinar-cortical connections - provided
		as an example.

bin: 		keep the binaries here (or somewhere else if you like), and put
		this directory in your path.

