Site structure

The site structure that we are going to build is self-contained within a server-root directory. It doesn't matter where this server-root directory is situated on your system; as long as the files within it are located as described here then everything should work OK.

The site structure is as follows (using "/usr/local/ensembl" as an example server-root):

`-- /usr/local/ensembl
	`\|-- bioperl-live`	bio-modelling tools that Ensembl is based upon
	`\|-- biomart-perl`	Code to access the mart data-retrieval system
	`\|-- ensembl`	Ensembl core module
	`\|-- ensembl-compara`	Code for handling cross-species comparisons
	`\|-- ensembl-draw`	Drawing code for the website
	`\|-- ensembl-external`	Code for data outside the core database
	`\|-- ensembl-functgenomics`	Code to access the functional genomics data
	`\|-- ensembl-variation`	Code to access the variation (SNP) data
	`\|-- perl`	Website mod_perl modules
	`\|-- modules`	Website accessory modules
	`\|-- conf`	Website configuration files
	`\|-- htdocs`	Website HTML and image files
	`\|-- utils`	Utility scripts
	`-- public-plugins	Public plugin modules

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