TUTORIAL: bioLegato Overview
bioLegato is
best thought of as a program that runs other programs. bioLegato is the
primary graphic interface for launching programs in BIRCH. For each
program, bioLegato provides a menu that lets you set program
parameters,
launch the program, and view the output. bioLegato takes care of all of
the
background details, such as translating files from one format into
another. In many cases, output also goes to a new bioLegato window,
making it
possible to do ad
hoc
pipelining. This is one of the most powerful aspects of bioLegato,
because it
means that you can usually run additional programs using the output of
one program as the input of the next. In contrast, most browser-based
applications display output in a human-readable form that allows no
further analysis by other programs.
How do I use
bioLegato? - A brief
introduction to how the bioLegato interface works.
One program; many
data types - There are four
bioLegato
interfaces:
- biolegato -
DNA/protein Sequence data
- dbiolegato -
lists of
data items (CURRENTLY DE-IMPLEMENTED PENDING REVISION)
- mbiolegato -
molecular
marker data
- tbiolegato
-
phylogenetic tree data
How does bioLegato
work? - Everything that
bioLegato does is accomplished by running external programs
Pipelining
using
bioLegato - combining
many tools
to accomplish a complex task.