kestrel

README

Kestrel Taxonomy Finder

Copyright 2021 by Shawn Rupp

Kestrel is a program for downloading taxonomies from internet databases given species’ common or scientific names.

Kestrel is meant to reduce the amount of manual searching required for a project, but its results may still require some manual curation.

Dependencies

Go 1.11+
MySQL 8.0+ Xvfb
Chrome browser

Installation

Xvfb

Selenium requires Xvfb to run. To install on Linux:

sudo apt-get install xvfb  

Kestrel

Download the git repository, change into the directory, and install (required Go packages will be installed).

git clone https://github.com/icwells/kestrel.git  
cd kestrel/  
./install.sh all  
./install.sh download  

Testing

Once you have installed the program and its dependencies, you may wish to run the test script:

./test.sh

If everything is properly configured, it should not throw any errors.

For further documentation, see KestrelReadMe.pdf