YODA-1.3.1

This program analyzes growth curves, computing doubling times and relative survivals on a sequence of outgrowth curves. The data is exported in a format for easy plotting in Excel (or other spreadsheet programs). The program can also output average values and standard deviations for a group of curves.

It is made publicly available on our server at: http://www.sageweb.org/yoda

Installation

This program is built on a server/client architecture using the PHP symfony framework (http://www.symfony-project.org/). It requires a web server that is set up with MySQL and PHP support.

Installation instructions:

1. unzip yoda onto your server (outside of the web root).
2. move the yoda /web directory into your web root and rename the directoy to 'yoda'
3. update the yoda /web/index.php file to include the location of the yoda /config directory
4. create a mysql database and run the SQL in yoda /data/sql/schema.sql
5. add any users to the 'user' table (apply sha1 hash to your passwords before inserting into the database)
6. edit yoda /config/database.yml and update the dns string to match your server, as well as the username and password for your MySQL connection
7. visit http://localhost/yoda/index.php and start using

Changes in version 1.3.1

1. csv output now marked to open with excel
2. csv output file has text fields now delimited with double quotes
3. reduced source zip file size by removing un-needed files