Tripal

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Status
  • Mature release
  • Active development
  • Active support
Resources

Tripal is a Chado database web front end based on a collection of Drupal modules. Tripal is under development at several institutions, including The Main Bioinformatics Laboratory at Washington Statue University, the University of Saskatchewan and the Clemson University Genomics Institute (CUGI). Tripal initially started as a web front-end for the Marine Genomics Project (MG.org).

The official website for Tripal can be found at http://www.genome.clemson.edu/software/tripal. Here you can find software downloads, documentation, support and links to all things Tripal.

Tutorials

Several tutorials are available through the GMOD website for Tripal. These tutorials were presented at the GMOD schools.

Tutorial for Tripal v0.3b

Tutorial for Tripal v0.2


Functionality of Tripal

Upon initial release, Tripal will provide several benefits:

  • Faster development of an online genomic database.
  • Site administrators can add non-biological content to their sites and allow editing of content by non-technical users.
  • Integrates directly with GMOD Chado.
  • Provides visualizations for chado "modules" such as features, analyses, libraries, stocks, and others.
  • Provides an interface for easy editing/updating of data in Chado.
  • Provides full text and categorical search capabilities for Chado content.
  • Can integrate GMOD tools such as CMap and GBrowse.
  • Integrates with powerful Drupal features like Drupal Views and Panels
  • Provides fully customizable PHP-based templates to allow for fine-grain control of the look-and-feel of the site.
  • Web-based management of Chado (i.e. installation of Chado v1.11 and loading of ontologies)
  • Loaders for GFF3 and FASTA format files.
  • Provides an API to allow for creation of custom extensions by anyone.