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GenBank Details

 

  • What labs or how many are using GenBank?

    approximately 20 C2B2/MAGNet labs and 50 Cancer-center & non-Cancer center labs

  • Who is the main “database authority” for GenBank?

    Pavel Morozov (pm259<at>columbia.edu), Richard Friedman (friedman<at>cancercenter.columbia.edu)

  • What kind of database is it? (flat-file, relational, XML, etc)

    Flat-file

  • Name/Size of database?

    GenBank

    82 million sequences, 65 billion residues

    • Backup procedures? How often?
      • Database backups (Hot, Cold, Both) [and/or]
      • Operating system backup

        OS backup

    • What servers/operating systems are hosting them (IP addresses)
      • adgate.cu-genome.org
      • cancercenter.columbia.edu
    • Approximately how many *active* users?

      200

    • How often is the database used? (Daily, Weekly, Monthly)

      Daily

  • What platforms are being used? (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc)

    N/A

  • What applications are using these databases?
    • Web interface?
    • Application (GUI)?
    • Command line interface (CUI)?
    • Web interface
    • command line (GCG package) and x-Windows (seqlab)
  • Is it accessible from outside the firewall to public users?
    • YES
  • What is the primary purpose of the database & types of data stored?
    • Sequence Homology searches and retrieval
  • May I access the database and if so, what is the login info?
    • adgate.cu-genome.org; for login-id => Contact: Hans-Erik Aronson (hga1<at>columbia.edu)
    • http://cancercenter.columbia.edu; for login-id => Contact: Janie Weiss (janie<at>cancercenter.columbia.edu)
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