GUS Web Development Kit
Introduction

The GUS WDK is designed to accelerate the creation of "data mining" websites. It can work on any relational database system and on any schema.

Use the WDK to:

  • define a coarse grained data model (based on the tables already in your existing database) data model that specifies what questions the user can ask of the database and what kinds of answers they get
  • define a view of that data model using JavaServer Pages

Please refer to the WDK documentation to learn more.
Access
Downloading, Installing and Using the WDK
Mailing List
Bug and Feature Trackers
  • You can submit bugs with the WDK bug tracker hosted at CBIL.
  • But, before you do so, please search for bugs to be sure your bug is not already being tracked.
Source Code Repository
Download Site
Sample site build with the WDK
We have used the WDK to build a Toy Site. The site is based on a Toy Model written in xml. (The WDK uses an xml schema file written in RELAX NG to validate the model xml).
Collaborators

The GUS project is a collaboration among:

  • CBIL - The Computational Biology and Informatics Laboratory at The University of Pennsylvania's Center for Bioinformatics
  • PSU - The Pathogen Sequencing Unit of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
New Directions
Take a look here for a glimpse at an under construction list of upcoming features
Links

Here are some sites which use an earlier implementation of the WDK, the WDK-Classic:

  • AllGenes - A human and mouse gene index derived from assembled ESTs and mRNAs.
  • PlasmoDB - A genomic database for the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
  • EPConDB - The Endocrine Pancreas Consortium web site




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