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Gene cluster comparison figure generator
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Running Clinker on a Server? #60

Closed Robaina closed 3 years ago

Robaina commented 3 years ago

Hi all! Just came across Clinker, great tool @gamcil! I was considering using Clinker in my classes, would be cool to run Clinker directly in my server so students didn't have to install it locally. I'm not an expert in web developing but know a bit so I considered to give it a go.

Any suggestions on how would you do it?

Thanks! Semidán

gamcil commented 3 years ago

Hi @Robaina, sorry it took me so long to get back to this, must have forgotten to answer.

Do you mean you want to develop a GUI frontend for clinker on your server? I don't have a lot of experience in that area, but I think the easiest way would just be a simple Flask application with a page to pick files and change the settings, then have a run button linked to a Flask route which calls clinker with those files/settings either using clinker() in main.py or as a subprocess (i.e. install on your server, then subprocess.run(['clinker' 'file1.gbk', 'file2.gbk', 'file3.gbk', '-p', 'plot.html']). Then you would just have to load the generated HTML file using Flask.

Robaina commented 3 years ago

Hi @gamcil, no worries. Thanks for the reply. I had actually forgotten about this question. I solved the problem through PHP and some changes in Clinker's code. Works like a charm!

gamcil commented 3 years ago

Awesome, glad you got it working :)