tutorial

Running the Generic Genome Browser under PSGI/Plack

September 11, 2011

Here’s a simple approach for installing and running a local instance of GBrowse, leveraging the PSGI/Plack webserver web application stack. You don’t need root access, you don’t need Apache, and you don’t need to request any firewall exceptions (for now). Background Both the current implementation and installer of GBrowse are loosely tied to Apache. By [...]

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An introduction to cloud computing for biologists (aka the 10-minute model organism database installation)

August 11, 2011

This tutorial will explain the basic concepts of cloud computing and get you up and running in minutes. No knowledge of system administration or programming is necessary. As an example, it describes how to launch your own instance of the model organism database WormBase. Introduction to cloud computing If you aren’t familiar with cloud computing [...]

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A Worthy Mercurial (hg) Tutorial from Joel Spolsky

April 4, 2010

At WormBase, we’ve been busy re-writing the website from the ground up to build a modern information discovery space that will generically handle genomic data. As the project manager, I made the executive decision to switch from CVS/SVN to a distributed version control system (DVCS). I’d used both git and mercurial personally for over a [...]

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