Official documentation for Genebook¶

Installing Genebook¶

Genebook is a Meteor.js application at its core. This means it is completely written in javascript. It requires Node.js, MongoDB and ofcourse Meteor itself.

Installing this on a Mac is as easy as:

brew install mongodb
brew install node
curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh
git clone https://github.com/holmrenser/genebook

Check this if you run into npm user persission problems.

The following will let you run a development version on your local machine:

meteor

While the app is running you can run the following script to load some example data:

bash scripts/load_testdata.sh

Information on compiling a full standalone build will be added soon

Key Genebook features¶

Genebook is a database system and user interface for browsing and querying:

• Genome sequences
• Structural genome annotations (i.e. protein coding genes and their exon structures)
• Functional annotations of genes (i.e. protein domain information from InterproScan)
• Orthogroup information
• Gene expression data from RNA sequencing experiments

In addition it features:

• User accounts with access levels, like admin level access for configuration and curator level access to modify annotations
• Easy data loading with parsers for common file formats
• Automatic generation and configuration of BLAST to search genome and annotation sequences
• Semantic URLs
• Intuitive user interface