Please checkout the new phenotrex package, which succeeds PICA:
https://github.com/univieCUBE/phenotrex
It comes with a considerable number of improvements
- Builds upon the battle-tested SciPy stack (
scikit-learn,pandas, etc.) - More easily extensible
- New classifiers (e.g. XGboost)
- Test-driven development
- Supports Python 3.7 and higher
- Available from PyPI:
$ pip install phenotrex