Harvard:Biophysics 101/2009/Infrastructure

Infrastructure Background

This is a listing of background information for those interested in Trait-O-Matic

Tasks

• Text Classification

--I already have MeSH parsed into a mySQL database, I am currently working on ICD-10 as a supplemental hierarchy of diseases [[1]]. As soon as this is ready the data will be applied to the classification.

• Reference Extraction

http://incubator.apache.org/pdfbox/ is a Java-based PDF text extractor that we can use to extract paragraphs out from references so that we can then display them together with traits. I will show a demonstration of text extraction in class today!

Joining

• Acquire a Harvard Ethics Training in Human Research (HETHR) certificate by completing the training at [2]. This should take around 2 hours, you have to read 6 of the required sections and 4 of the "electives". Email your certificate to Sasha (awaitz@post.harvard)

• Sign up for access to the control panel at [3]

• Create an RSA ssh public key. This will allow the server to authenticate you. This is done by using the command

ssh-keygen -t rsa

Ensure that your private and public keys are in your .ssh or .openssh directories. Otherwise, ssh will not know where to look for them.

• Upload your public key to the control panel

• Follow the directions on the front page of the control panel. They will tell you to edit your .ssh/config file by adding:

Host *.oxf ProxyCommand ssh -p2222 turnout@switchyard.oxf.freelogy.org -x -a -o "Compression no" $SSH_PROXY_FLAGS %h User <YOUR_USERNAME>

• You can now ssh to your node by following the directions on the front page of the contol panel

• To set up trait-o-matic, follow the directions at [4]