[Gmod-help] GMODTools, MODWare & Tripal

[Todd Vision]

Hi Dave,

A couple of general GMOD documentation weakspots are holding up Jason
Phillip's progress on mimulusevolution.org.  These might be two areas of
general interest that could use some focused attention from the helpdesk.
Is it possible some material being prepared by Scott or Stephen for this
year's courses will be helpful?  Any other suggestions for how to get
familiar with these tools?

Thanks,
Todd

> I started investigating the gff3 chado dumper.  I discovered that
> gmodtools has superceded the gff3 dumper written by Scott Cain.  There
> is a "bulkfiles" set of scripts that handles dumping data from the db
> to the file format of choice.  The problem is that there is a
> complicated set of XML configuration files and very little
> documentation on how to use these tools.

> I'm beginning the database migration plan as
> outlined by my June milestones on Google Groups.  We want to have a
> Chado friendly interface which does basically the same as our current
> site but on a larger more encompossing mulit-specie/population scale.
> I have been studying MODWARE and Tripal.  Unfortunately MODWARE is
> still in its infancy and Tripal isn't very impressive from what I have
> seen.  I have been unable to find documentation on it, but can only
> view a couple sites that implement it.  Perhaps I can email the author
> to see if this documentation exists.