Chado New Users

This page, and it's associated discussion page follow the learning curve for new Chado users learning the system at CSHL.

Getting an empty Chado PostgreSQL on our machines

• Zheng - on PC with Fedora. See Zheng's installation notes
• Mike - on Intel Mac running Fedora partition
• Jim -
  • on PPC Mac the hard way See Jim's installation notes
  • on CentOS server in Texas

Installation Notes

If the easy way fails, the old documentation outside the wiki can be pretty confusing.

Loading the Ontologies

This works via make ontologies. How to do updates?

Getting the Sequence Module Working

We think GFF3 can be thought of as a view into Chado using the Sequence module and the CV module, or we can think of GFF3 as a denormalized view of Chado.

Migration from other databases

Zheng's notes on wormbase migration

See also

• Chado - Getting_Started - and documentation links from there.
• Category:Chado - the Category page for all pages about Chado in this wiki