Simon Twigger @ MCW

I’ve put together a simple shell script to automate the process of keeping a local copy of the Gene Ontology terms up to date on a daily basis. It essentially mimics the download and install procedure on the GO Dev site.

The script requires limited set up, configure the path for the download and the MySQL username and password and the name for the MySQL database you want to create and its all set. I’ve set this up so my server runs the script every night using a simple cron job to ensure that we always have the most up to date ontology trees available for our QC scripts.

The script can be found here: http://castor.brc.mcw.edu/~simont/go_files/automate.tar.gz