VALIS

VALIS (Visualization & Analytics for Life Science) is a powerful genome visualizer written using modern web-technologies (React, ES6 and WebGL).

Dependencies

• Node + NPM (https://nodejs.org/en/)

Install

git clone git@github.com:VALIS-software/VALIS-frontend.git
cd VALIS-frontend
npm install

There is a test server located in the tools directory. The server requires the following libraries, which are installable using pip.

• PyEnsembl
• Flask
• Flask-Cors

Note: Currently all sequence and DNase track just contain dummy data.

Dev

There are two ways to run the webpack-dev-server, which will be launched at localhost:8080

1. Run the frontend that connects to a local backend server at localhost:5000:

   npm run dev

   Note*: A simple backend server can be found in the tools/ folder, to start run (from repo root):

   make mock-api

   Visit the SIRIUS-backend repository for getting the fully functional backend server.

2. Run the frontend that connects to a remote backend server.

   npm run dev-remote

   The IP address of remote server is specified in package.json

Pack and Deploy

To run webpack to generate the packaged web front in dist/:

npm run pack

To pack and deploy the current copy to the cloud server:

npm run deploy

Note*: CircleCI has been configured to take any changes from a new push, and automatically deploy it to the server.