REBASE

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REBASE Details

 

• What labs or how many are using REBASE?

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

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

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?

REBASE

750 restriction enzymes and their binding sites

• 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)

http://cancercenter.columbia.edu>

• Approximately how many *active* users?

200

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

Weekly

• 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)?

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?

• REBASE is a collection of information about restriction enzymes and related proteins.
• It contains published and unpublished references, recognition and cleavage sites, isoschizomers, commercial availability, methylation sensitivity, crystal, genome, and sequence data.

• May I access the database and if so, what is the login info?

http://cancercenter.columbia.edu; for login-id => Contact: Janie Weiss (janie<at>cancercenter.columbia.edu)