GENERAL: vgm has been developped by Johannes Reichold (JR) and Franca Schmid (FS). Please cite the following papers when using it: [1] Schmid, F., Tsai, P. S., Kleinfeld, D., Jenny, P., & Weber, B. (2017). Depth-dependent flow and pressure characteristics in cortical microvascular networks. PLoS computational biology, 13(2), e1005392. [2] Reichold, J., Stampanoni, M., Keller, A. L., Buck, A., Jenny, P., & Weber, B. (2009). Vascular graph model to simulate the cerebral blood flow in realistic vascular networks. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism, 29(8), 1429-1443. Further details are available in the dissertation of JR (https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/44704) and FS (https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/199362) INSTALLATION: 1) Install required python packages: quantities python-igraph pyamg sympy cython 2) clone from github 3) execute python setup.py build cp build/lib.XYZXYZ/vgm/core/*.so core/ 4) make folder 'logs' mkdir logs 5) Adjust PYTHONPATH to include vgm folder