The Bioinformatic Software Bench for Drupal allows for a rapid and secure deployment of bioinformatic software. The BLAST, InterProScan, SSAHA2 and annot8r software are provided by default and plugins for new software can be readily written. An innovative graphical user interface guides both end-user and administration of the software, including the secure provision of pre-publication datasets.
GMOD-DBSF is an Application Programming Interface module for the Drupal CMS which simplifies programming bioinformatic Drupal modules. It is responsible for i) importing a subset of the Chado tables to Drupal, ii) creates new tables in Drupal using Chado-conventions; iii) provides functions to communicate with Chado and Drupal database schemas; iv) provides other, generic, functions useful for bioinformatic module development. GMOD stands for General Model Organism Database toolkit (http://gmod.org) and DBSF stands for Drupal Bioinformatic Server Framework.