MIABIS converter tutorial

MIABIS converter tutorial

Table of contents

Learning objectives

By following this tutorial you will learn:

• How to install, configure and run all the required software.
• How to format your data.
• How to index samples and access them though HTTP.

Before you begin

Please make sure that your system has a recent version of Java (1.8). You can find the latest java version from your system in www.java.com.

Tools

In order to properly follow this tutorial you will need to download the following tools:

• MIABIS converter: A tool that facilitates sample indexing. It reads and process the input files. (download it here)
• Elasticsearch: A search server that provides a distributed full-text search engine with an HTTP interface. (download it here)

Data

For this tutorial, we have prepared a sample dataset.(download it here)

Elasticsearch

2. Unzip the downloaded file
   unzip elasticsearch-1.7.3.zip
3. Get into the elasticsearch foler cd elasticsearch-1.7.3
4. Start Elasticsearch bin/elasticsearch
5. Test elastic search by running curl -X GET http://localhost:9200/. The response should be similar to:

{
  "ok" : true,
  "status" : 200,
  "name" : "Terminatrix",
  "version" : {
    "number" : "0.90.7",
    "build_hash" : "36897d07dadcb70886db7f149e645ed3d44eb5f2",
    "build_timestamp" : "2013-11-13T12:06:54Z",
    "build_snapshot" : false,
    "lucene_version" : "4.5.1"
  },
  "tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}