Runtime View
SILO-LAPIS consists of three main components:
- LAPIS: A web service wrapping the SILO API.
- It maps the request to a corresponding SILO query.
- SILO API: The query engine exposed as a web service.
- It accepts SILO queries and returns the results. A SILO query specifies
- a filter expression for which samples should be considered,
- an action what kind of data should be returned (details, aggregated data, etc.).
- The SILO API regularly checks for new serialized states of the database (the output of the preprocessing) and loads them into memory.
- It accepts SILO queries and returns the results. A SILO query specifies
- SILO Preprocessing: A command line tool that preprocesses the data for SILO.
It builds a database from the input data and serializes it to disk.
- The SILO Preprocessing has to be started by the maintainer of the instance (or e.g. a cronjob). It is not a continuously running process.
