PhamDB

A web application for creating and modifying Phamerator databases.

Get started

For installation instructions, see the wiki.

Help and documentation

Help and documentation are available on the wiki.

Support

PhamDB was created by James Lamine as his computer science senior project. His advisors for this project were Serita Nelesen and Randal DeJong. For support questions, please contact Serita Nelesen - snelesen (at) calvin (dot) edu

Features

• Create and manage multiple Phamerator databases
• Upload genbank files to create a database
• Add and remove phages from existing databases
• Analyze your databases in Phamerator
• See live status of running jobs
• Queue multiple jobs
• Search NCBI's conserved domain database

Screenshots

Upload genbank files

See detailed error messages of invalid phages

Analyze your database in Phamerator

Minimum system requirements

Linux

• Docker
• 2GB of RAM (4GB recommended)
• 6GB of hard drive space

Windows and Mac OSX

• Docker toolbox
• 4GB of ram
• 6GB of hard drive space

Recommended

• Dual core processor

For developers

PhamDB is a Python Flask application. It uses Python 2.7, MySQL and RabbitMQ, and calls several Linux command line programs to process gene data.

The easiest way to see how the application is set up is to read the Dockerfile (docker/Dockerfile). It contains information on the various dependencies required. Note that nginx and uwsgi are only needed for production, not development.

Setup

Read the Dockerfile (docker/Dockerfile) to see the basics of how the application is set up.

Among other things, be sure to clone the repository, install the required linux packages, create a python virtual environment, install python packages from requirements.txt, add the project to the virtual environment's PYTHONPATH, run the database creation script, download the conserved domain database using the included makefile (pham/data/conserved-domain-database/Makefile), and verify that all of the tests pass.

Running PhamDB locally

Once you have installed the dependencies and required python packages, you will have to run two commands:

Run the application server with:

python webphamerator/run.py

Run the Celery background job processor with:

celery -A webphamerator.app.celery worker

Testing

From the project's root directory, run the tests with:

nosetests

License

PhamDB is licensed under the GNU GPL, version 3. See license.txt for the full license.