rawgene / webportal

RAWG webportal. Manage genome uploads and workflow selection.

Webportal

This repo contains the front-end interface of RAWG and is built with Django framework. The webportal is designed to be a simple and intuitive interface for researchers to upload data and define workflows.

For an online demo of the website, please see demo and user guide.

The current database schematic is shown below

Webportal setup guide

For security reasons, Django's setting file is masked. For local development, you should make a copy of the settings.py and call it local_settings.py

You can run cp ./webportal/settings.py ./webportal/local_settings.py from the repository root.

Three main areas need to be modified before a Django website can be run:

• SECRET_KEY: this field is left empty. You can just add a random string to it (eg. Rawg is AWesome Gene) or run this Python code to generate a random string

  import random
  ''.join(random.SystemRandom().choice('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789!@#$%^&*(-_=+)') for i in range(50))
  

• DATABASES need to be modified if you are connecting to a database other than the local sqlite3 database.

• ALLOWED_HOSTS need to be modified if you want to access the website remotely (i.e. other than 127.0.0.1)