Using Tribe¶
Tribe helps biologists and bioinformaticists create seamless data mining pipelines. It stores the user’s knowledge base in the form of collections of genes. These collections can then be shared with collaborators, downloaded programatically, or used directly by any analysis tool or webserver that is connected to Tribe.
Authentication¶
In order to create and save collections in Tribe, you can either:
a) Create an anonymous temporary account, which does not require an email address or password, or
b) Create a full user account, which will allow you to share your collections with your collaborators
Temporary anonymous accounts and full user accounts¶
Temporary anonymous accounts
A temporary anonymous account will allow you to create, edit and delete your own collections. You do not need an email address or password to create a temporary anonymous account. You will only be able to access this temporary account from the computer and Internet browser you are currently using to view this page. You will be able to access your account for 1 year from the date you create it, until you erase the cookies from this browser, or until you log out of the account from this browser.
Before your account expires, you will have the option to upgrade your temporary anonymous account into a full, regular Tribe account by entering an email address and a password.
Full user accounts
A full user account will allow you to share collections and invite collaborators via email addresses. When running analyses in webservers connected to Tribe (such as GIANT), you will also be able login via Tribe-authentication and access all of your Tribe resources in the client webserver.
Creating and saving collections¶
To see examples of how to create and save collections in Tribe, check out our video tutorials on our YouTube channel or our section on creating collections through our web interface here
Collection URLs¶
A concept fundamental to Tribe’s functionality is the fact that every collection resource must have a unique URL.
A collection’s URL is made up of a combination of its creator’s username and a shortened (the first 75 characters), url-friendly version of its title. This means all letters are converted to lower-case and spaces are changed to hyphens. For example:
If your username in Tribe is "awesomeuser1" and you create a collection
with the title "Super Collection", then its URL will be:
"awesomeuser1" + "/" + "super-collection" = "awesomeuser1/super-collection"
Tribe will not allow two collections to have the exact same URL (as it uses this URL behind the scenes in the API to fetch the resource). Therefore, it will ask you to pick a different collection title if the new collection url matches the url for a collection that already exists.