GMOD - Getting Started

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Description

This is a page about getting started with GMOD. If you want to set up your own model organism database, this is a good place to start.

Getting Advice

If you need advice you can write to one of a number of GMOD mailing lists, these tend to focus on more technical aspects. Another good resource is the GMOD Help Desk - feel free to write them with questions on any type, they are tasked with providing support to newcomers and experts alike.


Documentation


Installation

There are different ways to install the subset of GMOD components needed to get a working model organism database.


Using yum on Unix

One easy way assumes that you have a brand new computer with Fedora Core 2 installed so that you can take advantage of several 'short cut' packages that have been prebuilt for that operating system and are available from biopackages.net.


Installing from Source

The harder way is for any other OS and requires just about everything to be built from source.


Getting the Latest & Greatest Version by CVS

There are many new features in the development versions which have not been released yet. To get the latest version of a GMOD component you can use anonymous CVS. Here is the recipe:

>cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@gmod.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gmod login 
CVS password: <hit return>
>cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@gmod.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gmod co <component>

For a list of all the GMOD components that can be accessed by CVS, or checked out, see http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=27707.


Contacts

There are number of GMOD or GMOD-related mailing lists, each focused on a particular component.

If you have more general questions a good mailing list is gmod-schema or contact the GMOD Help Desk, this Help Desk has been created with a particular aim of assisting those who are new to GMOD - write the Help Desk at wg-emod@nescent.org.