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# Modify your <code>yum.conf</code> file in the way described [http://www.biopackages.net/#Configuration here] on the Biopackages.net website. This file is usually found in the <code>/etc</code> directory. | # Modify your <code>yum.conf</code> file in the way described [http://www.biopackages.net/#Configuration here] on the Biopackages.net website. This file is usually found in the <code>/etc</code> directory. | ||
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Revision as of 16:19, 14 February 2007
Contents
Description
Chado is a relational schema that underlies many GMOD installations. It is capable of representing many of the general classes of data frequently encountered in modern biology such as sequence, sequence comparisons, phenotypes, genotypes, ontologies, publications, and phylogeny. It has been designed to handle complex representations of biological knowledge and should be considered one of the most sophisticated relational schemas currently available in molecular biology. The price of this complexity is that the new user is advised to spend some time becoming familiar with its fundamentals.
Documentation
Modules
Chado is a modular schema, designed in such a way as to allow the addition of new modules for new data types. The existing modules are:
- Audit - for database audits
- Companalysis - for data from computational analysis
- Contact - for people, groups, and organizations
- Controlled Vocabulary (cv) - for controlled vocabularies and ontologies
- Expression - for RNA and protein expresssion
- General - for identifiers
- Genetic - for genetic data and genotypes
- Library - for descriptions of molecular libraries
- Map - for maps without sequence
- Organism - for taxonomic data
- Phenotype - for phenotypic data
- Phylogeny - for organisms and phylogenetic trees
- Publication (pub) - for publications and references
- Sequence - for sequences and sequence features
- Stock - for specimens and biological collections
- WWW -
Installation
Chado From CVS
If you get Chado from CVS you get the very latest code but it is not as thoroughly tested as the stable release. To do an anonymous checkout of the Chado schema:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@gmod.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gmod login
Enter blank password. Then do:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@gmod.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gmod co schema
Once the package has been downloaded cd to the schema/chado/ directory.
Follow the instructions in the INSTALL file, there are a number of prerequisites. Or read schema/chado/INSTALL.
Download a Stable Release of Chado
- Go to GMOD at Sourceforge
- Download the latest gmod (the Chado source code is contained within this package)
- Follow the instructions in the chado/INSTALL file
Installation using an RPM
If you are running the Fedora Core 2 linux distribution or any Unix that uses yum and RPM files then installing many GMOD applications (e.g. Chado, GBrowse, and Textpresso and the prerequisites) should be easy:
- Modify your
yum.conffile in the way described here on the Biopackages.net website. This file is usually found in the/etcdirectory. - Issue the command
sudo yum update. - Issue the command
sudo yum install gmod.
See biopackages.net for more detail.
Contacts
Pronunciation
Chado is usually pronounced like this.
