BioJS 101 tutorials

Headstart

So first thing is to write a very simple script with javascript.

This can then be run by node so long as you are in the correct folder.



Package basics

Important point:

For BioJS 2 components, we have following naming conventions:

biojs-[io/rest/vis/algo/…]-[name]

• Use io for components which are responsible for parsing data into a specific format (aka parser)
• Use vis for components which are visualizing data sets
• Use rest for REST apis to databases
• Use algo for server/client side algorithms processing the data (e.g. alignments, neural networks, markov models, graph algorithms)

require is a special function provided by node.js

package.json

   this seems to contain the key information about the package.