OpenAlea is an open source project primarily aimed at the plant research community. It is a distributed collaborative effort to develop Python libraries and tools that address the needs of current and future works in Plant Architecture modeling. OpenAlea includes modules to analyze, visualize, and model the functioning and growth of plant architecture.

OpenAlea is licensed under the CeCILL-C free software license agreement. the CeCILL-C License : a copyleft, Free Software license that is compatible with French Law. The license is similar to the L-GPL.

For general information about installation, please read Installation Guide.

If you are looking for a specific package installation, refer to the package documentation in Packages.

You can find examples of what can be done with OpenAlea in the Gallery page.

The main way to contribute is to fork the package repository you are interested in on GitHub, see the How to in the Openalea documentation.

For further assistance, you can reach out to the development team creating an issue on github