Revision as of 19:13, 14 December 2007

Welcome to GMOD

GMOD News

Modware Feedback Wanted November 2007 GMOD Meeting GMODTools 1.1 Released GMOD Help Desk is Back FlyBase Converts to Chado Pathway Tools 11.5 Released ISMB/Bioinformatics Chado Paper BioMart 0.6 Released GBrowse 1.68 Released

New & Revised Pages

Glossary • PostgreSQL • Databases and GMOD • Computing Requirements • Materialized views • GMOD News • Finding Support • GMOD Mailing Lists • Installing Chado on Ubuntu HOWTO • GBrowse/AJAXhandlerScript

Popular GMOD Tools

Genome Browsing and Editing   Apollo: Genome annotation editor   GBrowse: Genome annotation viewer Comparative Maps   CMap: Comparative map viewer   Sybil: Comparative genome viewer Database Tools   Chado: Biological database schema   BioMart: Data mining system   GMODTools: Chado to Fasta, GFF, ... Biological Pathways   Pathway Tools: Metabolic, regulatory Infrastructure   GMODWeb: Website for Chado DBs   Modware: Middleware for Chado

GMOD is the Generic Model Organism Database project, a collection of open source software tools for creating and managing genome-scale biological databases. You can use it to create a small laboratory database of genome annotations, or a large web-accessible community database. GMOD tools are in use at many large and small community databases.

How do I Get Started?

For a project overview see GMOD for the Biologist. For an introduction to specific GMOD components see the list of the most popular tools at the right, or visit GMOD Components for a comprehensive list of GMOD tools.

How do I Get Support?

GMOD support is available from several different sources. Finding Support introduces each support option (this web site, GMOD Mailing Lists, and the GMOD Help Desk) and offers guidance on which one is the most appropriate for your question.

How do I Get Involved?

As an open source project GMOD relies on the donation of time and software by groups and individuals. Contribution of new tools, adoption of existing ones, and improving the documentation are all welcome. Existing and potential users are encouraged to provide feedback via mailing lists or the help desk. The GMOD Project Page lists projects in need of ideas and developers.

You can also attend project meetings. See November 2007 GMOD Meeting and Hackathon 2007 info for summaries of the two most recent meetings.

Contributing Organizations