Skip to content

Latest commit

 

History

History
88 lines (49 loc) · 2.86 KB

backend.md

File metadata and controls

88 lines (49 loc) · 2.86 KB

backend

The backend consists of a python HTTP server with FastAPI and a postgreSQL database all housed in a docker container.

How the HTTP Server works

The main file to look at is backend/src/server.py which hosts all our endpoints. Each endpoint can be included via a router found in the backend/src/api/ folder.

See examples in that folder for how we set up get, post, and other types of HTTP requests.

For a way to visualize what endpoints you have, navigate to http://localhost:8000/docs to see auto generated swagger docs about what each endpoint does and what input they expect.

Venome Docs Backend

Adding packages to the python server

cd backend
poetry add py_package_name

which adds the package locally (so your intellisense can detect it).

To have those packages also installed/reflected in the backend run

sh run.sh install_backend

Database

See database.md

Docker

Important

You must have Docker Desktop GUI installed and the docker-compose bash command.

We use docker to run our environments. We compose three images

  • venome-backend (on port 8000)
  • venome-frontend (on port 5173)
  • venome-postgres (on port 5432)

all are defined in the docker-compose.yml.

more commands can be found in the run.md and more specific instructions can be found in the DEVELOPMENT.md.

Inspecting the consoles

While the docker venome container is running, go to the Docker Desktop GUI. You should see the same as the following video

Screen.Recording.2023-11-14.at.11.46.12.PM.mov

this is where you can see print statements and other debug info / errors.

Foldseek

For similarity search we use Foldseek.

Without foldseek installed nothing will be computed and no errors. No harm at all.

However if you want to add foldseek run

./run.sh add_foldseek

to the docker container and then it will compute.

TM Align

For protein aligning and model combining (e.g. on the Compare page), we use TM Align.

To add TM Align to your local development setup, run

./run.sh add_tmalign

which will download the executable to the docker.

If you get an error about requests library error, you'll need to install requests globally for python. Do pip3 install requests.

The script doesn't upload thumbnails for the proteins in the browser. So you'll have to manually upload thumbnails in the browser after running the upload script. To do this, just go to http://localhost:5173/force-upload-thumbnails and wait till that finishes.