OpenCGA is an open-source project that aims to provide a Big Data storage engine and analysis framework for genomic scale data analysis of hundreds of terabytes or even petabytes. OpenCGA provides a scalable and high-performance Storage Engine framework to index biological data such as BAM or VCF files using different NoSQL databases, currently only MongoDB has been fully developed. A data analytics and genomic Analysis layer interface has been implemented over this big data storage index. A metadata Catalog has been alse developed to provide authentification and ACLs and to keep track all of files and sample annotation. All these can be queried through a comprehensive RESTful web services API or using the command line interface.
OpenCGA constitutes the big data analysis component of OpenCB initiative. It is used by other projects such as EMBL-EBI EVA, Babelomics or BierApp.
You can find OpenCGA documentation and tutorials at: https://github.com/opencb/opencga/wiki.
You can report bugs or request new features at GitHub issue tracking.
Releases notes are available at GitHub releases.
Roadmap is available at GitHub milestones. You can report bugs or request new features at GitHub issue tracking.
OpenCGA is versioned following the rules from Semantic versioning.
We recommend to contact OpenCGA developers by writing to OpenCB mailing list [email protected]. The main developers and maintainers are:
- Ignacio Medina ([email protected]) (Founder and Project Leader)
- Cristina Y. Gonzalez ([email protected])
- Jacobo Coll ([email protected])
- Jose M. Mut ([email protected])
- Matthias Haimel ([email protected])
- Roberto Alonso ([email protected])
- Alejandro Aleman ([email protected])
- Franscisco Salavert ([email protected])
OpenCGA is an open-source and collaborative project. We appreciate any help and feeback from users, you can contribute in many different ways such as simple bug reporting and feature request. Dependending on your skills you are more than welcome to develop client tools, new features or even fixing bugs.
OpenCGA is mainly developed in Java and it uses Apache Maven as build tool. OpenCGA requires Java 7+ and a set of other OpenCB Java dependencies that can be found in Maven Central Repository.
Stable releases are merged and tagged at master branch, you are encourage to use latest stable release for production. Current active development is carried out at develop branch, only compilation is guaranteed and bugs are expected, use this branch for development or for testing new functionalities. Only dependencies of master branch are ensured to be deployed at Maven Central Repository, develop branch may require users to download and install other active OpenCB repositories:
- biodata: https://github.com/opencb/biodata (branch 'develop')
- datastore: https://github.com/opencb/datastore (branch 'develop')
- cellbase: https://github.com/opencb/cellbase (branch 'develop')
OpenCGA is an open-source and free project, you can download default develop branch by executing:
imedina@ivory:~$ git clone https://github.com/opencb/opencga.git
Cloning into 'opencga'...
remote: Counting objects: 20267, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (219/219), done.
remote: Total 20267 (delta 105), reused 229 (delta 35)
Receiving objects: 100% (20267/20267), 7.23 MiB | 944.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (6363/6363), done.
Latest stable release at master branch can be downloaded executing:
imedina@ivory:~$ git clone -b master https://github.com/opencb/opencga.git
Cloning into 'opencga'...
remote: Counting objects: 20267, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (219/219), done.
remote: Total 20267 (delta 105), reused 229 (delta 35)
Receiving objects: 100% (20267/20267), 7.23 MiB | 812.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (6363/6363), done.
You can build OpenCGA by executing the following command from the root of the cloned repository:
$ mvn clean install -DskipTests
Remember that develop branch dependencies are not ensured to be deployed at Maven Central, you may need to clone and install develop branches from OpenCB biodata, datastore and cellbase repositories. After this you should have this file structure in opencga-app/build:
opencga-app/build/
├── analysis
├── bin
├── conf
└── libs
You can copy the content of the build folder into any directory such as /opt/opencga.
You can run the unit tests using Maven or your favorite IDE. Just notice that some tests may require of certain database back-ends such as MongoDB or Apache HBase and may fail if they are not available.
If the build process has gone well you should get an integrated help by executing:
./bin/opencga.sh --help
You can find more detailed documentation and tutorials at: https://github.com/opencb/opencga/wiki.
We try to improve the user experience by making the installation and build as simple as possible. Unfortunately, for some OpenCGA components and functionalities other dependencies are required.
At this moment the only fully developed storage engine plugin is MongoDB. MongoDB is free and open-source and can be downloaded from here. Currently Apache HBase plugin is under heavy development and will be ready soon.
For AES encryption please download UnlimitedJCEPolicyJDK7.zip from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jce-7-download-432124.html . Then unzip the file into $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security