datanator_frontend

datanator_frontend is a web interface for datanator, a toolkit for discovering and aggregating data for building and calibrating dynamical models of cellular biochemistry.

datanator is particularly useful for building large models, such as whole-cell models, that require large amounts of data to constrain large numbers of parameters. datanator was motivated by the need for large amounts of data to constrain whole-cell models and the fact that this data is hard to utilize because it is scattered across numerous siloed repositories.

Please see the datanator documentation for more information.

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Installation

Install Dependencies

First, please install the following dependencies:

Install datanator_frontend

Second, please run the following shell commands to clone and install datanator from GitHub:

git clone git@github.com:KarrLab/datanator_frontend.git
npm install

Because datanator_frontend is under active development, we recommend regularly pulling the latest revision of datanator_frontend from GitHub.

Run datanator_frontend

To run a test server of the frontend, run the command:

npm run dev

NOTE: A backend server is needed to run successfully run the frontend. One can use the production Heroku server API or one can use a local server API (instructions on doing this shown below). To toggle between the two servers, toggle between API_ENDPOINT(Production) and TEST_API_ENDPOINT(Local) in the lib/fetch.js file.

Running Backend

Please see the installation instructions in the datanator documentation.

Tutorial

Please see the tutorial in the datanator documentation.

About

License

The software is released under the MIT license:

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2017-2018 Karr Lab

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Development team

This package was developed by the following researchers in the Karr Lab at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, USA:

Acknowledgements

This work was supported the National Institutes of Health [grant numbers P41-EB023912, R35-GM119771] and the National Science Foundation [grant numbers 1649014, 1548123].

Questions and comments

Please contact the Karr Lab with any questions or comments.