populate neo4j locally

[johaGL]

Dear MetabolicAtlas team, thank you for your great software. I have installed Neo4j locally and I would like to populate it following your instructions. You explain in the readme.md that the MetabolicAtlas, data-generation and data-files repos are required, but please correct me if I am wrong: your instructions are intended to deploy the entire Metabolic Atlas web with front-end + back-end + Neo4j. My purpose is just to have locally a populated Neo4j for me to exploit it programmatically. Could you please tell me if data-generation and data-files are enough for my purpose ? Thank you in advance for your time and help.

[mihai-sysbio]

Hi @johaGL!

When installing Neo4j locally, I presume this is without Docker.
Based on your use-case, I believe it would be enough to have the data-generation and data-files repositories. This Readme is the optimal stating point. However, this will only generate the data in the correct format to be imported by Neo4j. The command to import the generated data into Neo4j is hidden here:

cypher-shell -u ${NEO4J_USERNAME} -p ${NEO4J_PASSWORD} --format plain --file import/import.cypher

where import.cypher is generated to contain the instructions to import all other generated CSV files. Feel free to define your own username and password; for us, those have to be variables that get used elsewhere too.

I hope this helps.

[johaGL]

Thank you very much!