MOLGENIS is a collaborative open source project on a mission to generate great software infrastructure for life science research.

The procedure below tells you how to checkout the molgenis project and build one of the example apps.

install java8 JDK (not JRE) from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

install eclipse (we used Luna) from https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

install mysql from (we used 5.6.23 DMG) http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/

install git from http://git-scm.com/download/

open terminal and start mysql client (command differs in Windows, Linux, Mac):

/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -u root

Note, if not running you can start the MySQL server from the System Preferences

in mysql client create database and permissions via command:

create database omx;
grant all privileges on omx.* to molgenis@localhost identified by 'molgenis';
flush privileges;

start Eclipse from the commandline (via Dock will not work!)

when asked, create fresh workspace folder (not same folder as git!)

go to 'Help' -> 'Eclipse market place'

find and install plugins:

• 'JBoss Tools', during install only select Freemarker IDE
• 'TestNG for Eclipse'
• 'm2e-apt'

go to 'Eclipse' -> 'Preferences'

• 'installed JREs' and select 'java 8'
• 'Maven' -> 'Annotation Processing' and select 'Automatically Configure JDT APT'

Restart

create acount on github.com

'fork' on http://github.com/molgenis/molgenis

copy the cloneURL

open terminal (mkdir if needed) and type

cd ~/git 
git clone http://github.com/[YOURACCOUNT]/molgenis

Optionally select stable molgenis version:

git fetch --tags origin
git checkout -b <tag name: see https://github.com/molgenis/molgenis/releases>

More information about forking can be found here: https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo

Create the file ~/.molgenis/omx/molgenis-server.properties and add user and database properties:

db_user=molgenis
db_password=molgenis
db_uri=jdbc:mysql://localhost/omx
admin.password=admin
user.password=admin

If these properties are not present, the MolgenisDatabasePopulator will fail (RuntimeException). This properties-file should be in your home folder, if the file is not there yet, just create it.

In eclpise, if still open, close the 'Welcome' screen.

Choose 'File' -> 'Import' -> 'Import existing Maven projects'

Browse to your /git/molgenis directory

Select and wait to install all kinds of maven connectors (this takes a while!)

Right mouse 'molgenis' -> Run as -> Maven install.

Right mouse 'molgenis-app' -> Run as -> Maven build ... -> in goals type 'jetty:run' and push run button

Open your browser at http://localhost:8080/

You should see the application. Login as 'admin', 'admin' to be able to upload and view data, create users, etc etc.

Add the original molgenis repository as a remote location.

cd ~/git/molgenis
git remote add blessed https://github.com/molgenis/molgenis.git

Perform regular updates so the latest changes are merged with your local clone.

git pull blessed master

And push back any merges or commits of your own to your online fork.

git push origin master

Solution: start Eclipse from commandline.

Run the Maven target 'jetty:stop'. If that does not help, use your opering systems process manager to kill anything running on port 8080. For example:

kill -9 `lsof -i :8080 -t`

For some modules in Molgenis, third-party software is in use. It is important to know that some of these licenses are different than the Molgenis license.

In this section you can find a list of remarks about third-party software in Molgenis modules.

As a non-profit organisation we are using the Highsoft software 'highstock version 1.3.6', in the molgenis-charts module to build some charts.

Important! The Highsoft software product is not free for commercial use. For Highsoft products and pricing go to: http://shop.highsoft.com/

To turn-off/deactivate this functionality you can set the RuntimeProperty “plugin.dataexplorer.mod.charts” to false: 1. You can find the RuntimeProperty via the menu Entities -> RuntimeProperty. 2. Search for the RuntimeProperty "plugin.dataexplorer.mod.charts" and update to false. 3. If it does not exists: a. Create a new RuntimeProperty b. Name -> plugin.dataexplorer.mod.charts c. Value -> false