Mica is a powerful software application used to create web portals for epidemiological study consortia.
Using Mica, consortia can build personalised web sites for publishing their research activities and their membership. Mica includes many domain-specific features such as study catalogues, data dictionary browsers, on-line data access request forms, community tools (forums, events, news) and others. Moreover, Mica includes a powerful data search engine that allows authenticated researchers to perform distributed queries on the content of each individual study data collection hosted by the OBiBa Opal database software.
Mica is based on the content management software Drupal used by millions of websites worldwide. As such, a webmaster benefits from all the power and flexibility of Drupal, as well as the support of an extended developer community.
Mica is developped by OBiBa.
Read Mica documentation.
Mica is a PHP-based application, so it should run on any platform for which a PHP engine and a web server are provided.
We provide a package for Debian-based platforms (Debian, Ubuntu, etc.). We strongly suggest to use this package as it greatly simplifies the installation and upgrades. Our package repository (with instructions) is here.
All other platforms should follow the installation instructions.
Once Mica is installed it probably needs to be configured for your environment. Please follow the instructions provided in our wiki here.
Prepare third party tools:
make install-tools
probaly we nee do install solr :
make install-solr
make start-solr
Prepare Drupal/Mica instance
make dev
Configure Apache
sudo ln -s mica/target/mica-dev /var/www/mica-dev
Then go to http://localhost/mica-dev
Have a bug? Please create an issue on OBiBa JIRA.
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OBiBa software are open source and made available under the GPL3 licence. OBiBa software are free of charge.