Mapp.it

Carlo Bifulco, MD

Abstract:

A web-spider, based on the availability of URL APIs to most web based databases, mapping web pages to two dimensional FreeMind mind-maps. Mapp.it runs locally like a web application and uses a small footprint CherryPy webserver.

Installing Mapp.it

Prerequisites

Python (http://www.python.org/), version 2.4 and above

• [CherryPy](http://www.cherrypy.org/)
• [ElementTree](http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm)
• [Cheetah](http://www.cheetahtemplate.org/)

Installation

From Source

Install the dependencies (see above).

Download and unzip Mapp.it

Using setuptools (upcoming...)

Download ez_setup.py.

Run:

python ez_setup.py

That should add an command, "easy_install" to your machine.

Now you should be able to install Mapp.it and dependencies doing:

easy_install -Z -f (upcoming)

Starting Mapp.it

Unpack and start the program with:

tar -xzvf Mappit.tar.gz

cd Mappit

python main.py

mapp.it runs by default on port 8096, and the screen below should show up when you point your browser to http://localhost:8096.

Using Mapp.it

Creating a map

Insert Hugo gene ids, assign a name to the map and select the services (web pages) you want to pull.

Clicking on the submit button will bring you to the results page

Which will be updated every 5 seconds till completion of the crawling.

The map (a zip file containing the map and the nodes) is now ready to be saved.

Using the map

Unzip the file produced by Mapp.it (e.g. exampleGenes.zip). You will find a directory with, in our example a exampleGenes.mm file and a nested exampleGenes directory. Now you can open exampleGenes.mm with FreeMind and brows your map (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page)

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