1. KnetMiner web server overview

KnetMiner web server overview

For each instance of KnetMiner, there are two different programs: A server and a client. The client is deployed on a Tomcat server and holds the application presentation/interface including the web-page with JavaScript and pictures. It broadcasts all of its application-specific requests to the server which contains the application logic and data processing. The application server is implemented as a webapp producing request-specific datasets for the client to visualize. The first time the server is started it parses the organism-specific OXL file into memory and creates pre-build indices for fast searching. Since genome-scale networks can be very large and are stored in memory we recommend to have a minimum of 10GB RAM available on the server.