NeuroScience Gateway Portlet

Introduction

The NeuroScience Gateway is a Liferay portlet aimed to work together with gUSE/WSPGRADE. It provides access to distributed computing resources (grid, PBS, SGE, ...) to neuroscientists working with MRI scans.

Components

• amc-theme: Liferay theme for AMC
• ecat
• liferay-sites: predefined Liferay site for AMC NeuroScience Gateway
• nsg-portlet: NeuroScience Gateway portlet source code
• nsg-tools: auxiliary scripts and debugging tools
• nsgdm-api: synchronisation tools for the data backend
• processingmanager-guse

Requirements

• gUSE/WSPGRADE 3.6.1 or later
• UMD2/3 middleware: gLite, MyProxy, lcg_utils, ...
• XNAT 1.6
• MySQL 5.1
• cURL

Database creation

The portlet requires a user and scheme on a MySQL server.

Building .war file

1. Get the latest source code git clone https://github.com/AMCeScience/neuroscience-gateway.git neuro
2. Generate portal-nsg.war file using Maven

   cd neuro/nsg-portlet
   mvn -s ../ebioinfra.settings.xml package

3. The resulting portal-nsg.war file can be found on neuro/nsg-portlet/target

Deploying the portlet

1. Log in Liferay using and admin/privileged account
2. Go to Control Panel / Plugin Installation / Install more portlets / Upload file
3. Upload the portal-nsg.war file
4. Restart Liferay

Configuring Liferay

1. Using a Liferay admin account and the control panel, create a NSG Admin role
2. Choose one of the Liferay sites and create a new page
3. Insert a nsg-portal porlet in the new page

Further documentation and contact info

Official NeuroScience Gateway documentation https://neuro.ebioscience.amc.nl/portal/web/nsg/documentation

For further information and details, contac us at: support-nsg[at]ebioscience[dot]amc[dot]nl