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Author: ErinWeisbart

README.md

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-CellProfiler-plugins
-====================
-[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/CellProfiler/CellProfiler-plugins.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/CellProfiler/CellProfiler-plugins)
+# CellProfiler-plugins
 
-A home for community-contributed and experimental CellProfiler modules. 
+A home for community-contributed, experimental, and dependency-heavy CellProfiler modules. 
 
-## Beginner-level instructions
-[Beginner guidance for using plugins in CellProfiler](https://github.com/CellProfiler/CellProfiler/blob/master/cellprofiler/data/help/other_plugins.rst) 
+Plugins advance the capabilities of CellProfiler but are not officially supported in the same way as modules.
+A module may be in CellProfiler-plugins instead of CellProfiler itself because:
+- it is under active development
+- it has a niche audience
+- it is not documented to CellProfiler's standards
+- it only works with certain version of CellProfiler
+- it requires extra libraries or other dependencies we are unable or unwilling to require for CellProfiler
+- it has been contributed by a community member
 
-Beginner instructions for installing runCellpose, runStarDist, and all other plugins with CellProfiler from source: 
-* [Windows](https://github.com/CellProfiler/CellProfiler-plugins/blob/master/Instructions/Install_environment_instructions_windows.md) 
-* [Mac_Intel_version](https://github.com/CellProfiler/CellProfiler-plugins/blob/master/Instructions/Install_environment_instructions_mac.pdf)
-
-
-## Use
-1. Clone this repository into a folder (PLUGIN_DIRECTORY) on your local computer:
-    ```
-    cd PLUGIN_DIRECTORY
-    git clone https://github.com/CellProfiler/CellProfiler-plugins.git
-    ```
-    
-    Alternatively download zip and manually extract to PLUGIN_DIRECTORY.
-
-1. Install required dependencies:
-	```
-	cd CellProfiler-plugins
-	pip install -r requirements.txt
-	```
-
-    To install CellProfiler-plugins on a windows machine with support for the deep learning module ClassifyPixels-UNet make sure you have [Visual Studio](https://support.microsoft.com/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads) 2017 installed then use
-    ```
-    cd CellProfiler-plugins
-    pip install -r requirements-windows.txt
-    ```
-
-1. Configure CellProfiler plugins directory in the GUI via `Preferences > CellProfiler plugins directory` (you will need to restart CellProfiler for the change to take effect). When running CellProfiler via the command line, use the `--plugins-directory` flag to specify the plugins directory, for example:
-    ```
-    cellprofiler --run --run-headless --project PROJECT_FILE --plugins-directory PLUGIN_DIRECTORY/CellProfiler-plugins
-    ```
-
-## ImageJ requirements
-
- If using the `RunImageJScript` module, please note:
- * You will also need to [install Maven](https://github.com/imagej/pyimagej/blob/master/doc/Install.md#installing-via-pip)
- * CellProfiler will need to be [built from source](https://github.com/CellProfiler/CellProfiler/blob/master/cellprofiler/data/help/other_plugins.rst) due to the requirement of additional libraries
+Please see our [CellProfiler-plugins documentation](https://cellprofiler.github.io/CellProfiler-plugins) for more information about installation, currently supported plugins, and how to contribute.

documentation/CP-plugins-documentation/overview.md

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 # What are CellProfiler Plugins?
 
 Plugins advance the capabilities of CellProfiler but are not officially supported in the same way as modules.
-Plugins can bring in bridges to other software (like ImageJ, ilastik, Cellpose, and StarDist) 
-Because of this, it is necessary to install CellProfiler from source so it can interact correctly with other software
+A module may be in CellProfiler-plugins instead of CellProfiler itself because:
+- it is under active development
+- it has a niche audience
+- it is not documented to CellProfiler's standards
+- it only works with certain version of CellProfiler
+- it requires extra libraries or other dependencies we are unable or unwilling to require for CellProfiler
+- it has been contributed by a community member
 
 
 ## Who made this?