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- What is Tripal?
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- 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
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- - 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
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- - 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
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- Please follow the online tutorial for installation instructions:
- http://www.gmod.org/wiki/Tripal_Tutorial_v1.1
- Customization
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- 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.
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