tripal

Tripal

What is Tripal?

Tripal is a collection of open-source freely available Drupal modules and is a member of the GMOD family of tools. Tripal serves as a web interface for the GMOD Chado database and is designed to reduce the time and cost required for construction of an online genomic, genetic and breeding database.

Features

• a Chado installer
• Data loaders for ontologies (controlled vocabularies), GFF files, and FASTA files, publications (from PubMed and AGIRCOLA).
• Generic Bulk Data Loader Modules allows for creation of custom loading templates.
• Drupal nodes (web pages) are automatically generated for organisms, genomic features, biological libraries, and stocks
• Supports creation of materialized views for faster data queries.
• Display templates are provided for all content types for easier customization.
• Views Integration allows for custom listings of data
• Content pieces exposed as blocks allowing the use of Panels for custom layouts of Tripal Nodes

Required Modules

• Drupal 7.x
• Drupal Core Modules: Search, Path and PHP modules.
• Drupal contributed modules: Views
• Database containing GMOD Chado Schema (can be installed by the Tripal Core module) NOTE: A PostgreSQL database is required for installation of the Chado Schema

Installation

Please follow the instructions in the online Tripal User's Guide: http://tripal.info/tutorials/v2.0/installation

Customization

Tripal can be used “as is” but also allows for complete customization. PHP-based template files are provided for all data types to allow for precise customizations as required by the community. A well-developed Tripal API provides a uniform set of variables and functions for accessing any and all data within the Chado database.