Introduction

The cdcs database style interacts with an instance of the Configurable Database Curation System (CDCS). Records are stored in the CDCS instance as validated XML.

  • With this method, a remote CDCS instance can be accessed by multiple computing resources.

  • Adding records to an CDCS instance requires a valid XSD schema for each record style, and that each corresponding XML record be consistent with that schema.

Version notes

Additional dependencies

  • Access to a working 2.X CDCS instance.

  • pycdcs

Initialization arguments

  • host: the URL for accessing the CDCS instance.

  • user: the username to use to access the CDCS instance.

  • pswd: the corresponding password for user, or path to a file containing the password.

  • cert: the directory path to a web certification file, if required by the CDCS instance.