Software

GMODWeb: a web framework for the generic model organism database

Brian D O'Connor^{* 1} , Allen Day^{* 1} , Scott Cain² , Olivier Arnaiz³ , Linda Sperling³ and Lincoln D Stein²

¹Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

²Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA

³Centre de Genetique Moleculaire, CNRS, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

Genome Biology 2008, 9:R102doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-6-r102

Published:	20 June 2008

Subject areas: Bioinformatics, Model organisms

Abstract

The Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD) initiative provides species-agnostic data models and software tools for representing curated model organism data. Here we describe GMODWeb, a GMOD project designed to speed the development of model organism database (MOD) websites. Sites created with GMODWeb provide integration with other GMOD tools and allow users to browse and search through a variety of data types. GMODWeb was built using the open source Turnkey web framework and is available from http://turnkey.sourceforge.net webcite.