WWW Server Operation Markus Krummenacker Fred Gilham Bioinformatics Research Group SRI International
SRI International Bioinformatics WWW vs. Desktop WWW: Comparative Genomics Tools (HTML Tables) Advanced Query Tool, using BioVelo BLAST Searching Desktop: Pathologic Prediction of new PGDBs Pathway Hole Filler All Editing Tools for Curation Many Overview Highlighting Options Ongoing effort to move Desktop features to Web
SRI International Bioinformatics Starting WWW Server: Basics Configured by ptools-init.dat parameters Required: (the values are used for generating URLs) WWW-Server-Hostname WWW-Server-Port Description: UG Section Organism Selection Start WWW Server: pathway-tools -www Windows—just click on “Web Server” desktop shortcut
SRI International Bioinformatics WWW Server: Advanced Several more ptools-init.dat parameters Some exotic parameters supplied as command-line args Command-line args override ptools-init.dat Description: UG Section Database Links: Link to/from PGDB and external web site UG section Manual and bulk
SRI International Bioinformatics Unsupervised Web Server Operation Pathway Tools needs some X Server Xvfb is a display-less X Server Use screen for starting pathway-tools Description:
SRI International Bioinformatics Lab Exercise Start up Pathway Tools in web server mode Connect to it with your browser: Oops! Too many organisms! Fix so it shows ONLY the HPY organism Do it on the command line -www-publish hpy Edit the ptools-local/ptools-init.dat file WWW-Publish entry
SRI International Bioinformatics Setup MySQL PGDBs Configure mysql server guide/released/mysql.html guide/released/mysql.html User account that will update curation DB Set in ptools-init.dat
SRI International Bioinformatics Configure Ptools Configure ptools-init.dat Convert FileKB to MySQL via Pathologic
SRI International Bioinformatics PGDB Snapshot Pathologic Backup DB to File Upgrade DB version