BIRCH - Adding locally-installed
programs and documentation
Goal:
To
add programs or documentation to the local BIRCH installation in
such a way that it is transparent what is in the BIRCH core from
what has been added locally.
Summary: For
binaries, this is accomplished simply by adding programs to
already-existing local/bin or local/script directories. To launch
locally-installed programs from bioLegato, you can add menu
items to the the appropriate bioLegato directory in local/dat. These
include:
local/dat/birch
local/dat/bldna
local/dat/blprotein
local/dat/blmarker
local/dat/bltree
The new menu items are merged into the BIRCH core bioLegato menus
automatically when a bioLegato instance launches. For documentation,
we need to add paths and descriptions of the documentation to the
birchdb.local database. The sql2htmldoc.py script merges local and
BIRCH core documentation into a single set of web pages. Remember: all of these changes are
automatically merged into BIRCH each time you update BIRCH.
