Supported Features and Data Types

Supported Features

Tripal provides a variety of features to help with the construction of an online genome, genetic, breeding or other biological database. Some of those features are provided by the core Tripal package, some are provided via Drupal and other via contributed Tripal extension modules.

		Core Tripal	Drupal	Extension Modules
Searching	Simple Fullsite Keyword Search	✔	✔
	Question-based Searches (set up by administrator)	✔	✔
	Simple Advanced Searches (Multiple fixed filter criteria)	✔	✔
	Sequence-similarity Search			✔
	List Support			✔
	Genomic Region Search/Overlap Queries			✔
Browsing	Basic Browsing	✔	✔
	Data Information Pages (e.g. gene pages)	✔	✔
	Annotation/Analysis Display			✔
	Data Summary Charts			✔
	Data type-specific Summaries			✔
Community	Community Data Submission			✔
	Community Help (e.g. Forum, Chat, Tutorials)		✔
	Conference Pages		✔
	Community News		✔
	Community Curation	✔	✔	✔
	E-commerce (germplasm, courses, materials)		✔
	Community Information Pages		✔
Data Sharing	Web Services	✔	✔
	Query Across Sites	✔
	BrAPI Web Services			✔
	Reference Sister Sites	✔
Third-Party Integration	Genome Browser Integration			✔
	Galaxy Integration			✔
	VCFTools Integration			✔
	BLAST Integration			✔
Other	Access control (login system)		✔	✔
	Data Importers			✔
	Developers Tools including TripalTestSuite			✔
	Data Analysis Tools			✔

Supported Data

Tripal supports a variety of data types for construction of an online genome, genetic, breeding or other biological database. The core Tripal package provides some data loaders, while contributed extension modules provide other data loaders. Data types that do not have loaders but which are supported by Chado are indicated. These data types can be loaded via the Tripal bulk loader or by creating your own extension module to import the data using the Tripal API

		Core Tripal	Extension Modules	API Support
Genomic	Genome Assembly	✔
	Gene Annotation	✔
	Gene-gene interactions			✔
	Protein domains			✔
	HTS Gene expression data		✔
	Array-based Gene expression data			✔
	RNA-seq		✔
Diversity	Genomic Variation (copy #, translocations, SNPs)			✔
	Genotypic Data (alleles, polymorphisms)		✔
	Phenotypic Data		✔
	QTL	✔
	Mutants (fast neutron, transposon, EMS)
	Phylogeny	✔
	Comparative analyses			✔
Germplasm Management & Breeding	Germplasm Stocks	✔
	Germplasm (Varieties, Landraces, etc.)	✔
	Germplasm Pedigrees		✔
	Genetic Maps		✔
	Field Trial Data			✔
Other	Pathways
	Images		✔
	Ontology	✔
	Ontology-based annotations	✔