Installation guide

ZENBU is written as a client/server or web2.0 designed system. It is written in c++ and perl for server-side web services and command line tools while the web clients are written in javascript.

The ZENBU source code is available for download from our sourceforge page https://sourceforge.net/projects/zenbu

The installation procedure requires several key steps


 * phase1: basic server machine setup: apache, fastcgi, mysql server.


 * phase2: compile and install ZENBU. including all c/c++ and perl library dependencies


 * phase3: configuring the server
 * creating support mysql databases
 * editing the server configuration file


 * phase4: loading data
 * loading new genomes
 * loading data via the command line