Software information

ICDB application

The software that makes up ICDB is written by Dan O'Sullivan. It uses these open source projects:

• Python
  • Flask
  • Gunicorn
  • SQLAlchemy
  • bokeh
  • Pillow
  • Celery
  • rpy2
• Bootstrap
• intercooler.js
• memcached
• Redis
• Docker
• NGINX

This is ICDB build number 884.

Color analysis

Color analysis of images is provided by the colordistance and recolorize R packages, written by Hannah Weller.

Publication:

• Weller HI, Westneat MW. 2019. Quantitative color profiling of digital images with earth mover’s distance using the R package colordistance. PeerJ 7:e6398 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6398

Infrastructure

The infrastructure that runs ICDB is designed and configured by Dan O'Sullivan, with support from Andrew Garcia at LSU AgCenter IT.

It uses these Microsoft Azure services:

• Azure Kubernetes Service
• Azure SQL
• Azure DevOps Pipelines
• Azure Container Registry
• Azure Storage
• Azure Functions
• Log Analytics