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Quality assurance for the query and distribution systems of the RCSB Protein Data Bank
The RCSB Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB, www.pdb.org) is a key online resource for structural biology and related scientific disciplines. The website is used on average by 165 000 unique visitors per month, and more than 2000 other websites link to it. The amount and complexity of PDB data as well as t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3056270/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21382834 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/database/bar003 |
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author | Bluhm, Wolfgang F. Beran, Bojan Bi, Chunxiao Dimitropoulos, Dimitris Prlić, Andreas Quinn, Gregory B. Rose, Peter W. Shah, Chaitali Young, Jasmine Yukich, Benjamin Berman, Helen M. Bourne, Philip E. |
author_facet | Bluhm, Wolfgang F. Beran, Bojan Bi, Chunxiao Dimitropoulos, Dimitris Prlić, Andreas Quinn, Gregory B. Rose, Peter W. Shah, Chaitali Young, Jasmine Yukich, Benjamin Berman, Helen M. Bourne, Philip E. |
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description | The RCSB Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB, www.pdb.org) is a key online resource for structural biology and related scientific disciplines. The website is used on average by 165 000 unique visitors per month, and more than 2000 other websites link to it. The amount and complexity of PDB data as well as the expectations on its usage are growing rapidly. Therefore, ensuring the reliability and robustness of the RCSB PDB query and distribution systems are crucially important and increasingly challenging. This article describes quality assurance for the RCSB PDB website at several distinct levels, including: (i) hardware redundancy and failover, (ii) testing protocols for weekly database updates, (iii) testing and release procedures for major software updates and (iv) miscellaneous monitoring and troubleshooting tools and practices. As such it provides suggestions for how other websites might be operated. Database URL: www.pdb.org |
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spelling | pubmed-30562702011-03-14 Quality assurance for the query and distribution systems of the RCSB Protein Data Bank Bluhm, Wolfgang F. Beran, Bojan Bi, Chunxiao Dimitropoulos, Dimitris Prlić, Andreas Quinn, Gregory B. Rose, Peter W. Shah, Chaitali Young, Jasmine Yukich, Benjamin Berman, Helen M. Bourne, Philip E. Database (Oxford) Original Article The RCSB Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB, www.pdb.org) is a key online resource for structural biology and related scientific disciplines. The website is used on average by 165 000 unique visitors per month, and more than 2000 other websites link to it. The amount and complexity of PDB data as well as the expectations on its usage are growing rapidly. Therefore, ensuring the reliability and robustness of the RCSB PDB query and distribution systems are crucially important and increasingly challenging. This article describes quality assurance for the RCSB PDB website at several distinct levels, including: (i) hardware redundancy and failover, (ii) testing protocols for weekly database updates, (iii) testing and release procedures for major software updates and (iv) miscellaneous monitoring and troubleshooting tools and practices. As such it provides suggestions for how other websites might be operated. Database URL: www.pdb.org Oxford University Press 2011-03-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3056270/ /pubmed/21382834 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/database/bar003 Text en © The Author(s) 2011. Published by Oxford University Press. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5 This is Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Bluhm, Wolfgang F. Beran, Bojan Bi, Chunxiao Dimitropoulos, Dimitris Prlić, Andreas Quinn, Gregory B. Rose, Peter W. Shah, Chaitali Young, Jasmine Yukich, Benjamin Berman, Helen M. Bourne, Philip E. Quality assurance for the query and distribution systems of the RCSB Protein Data Bank |
title | Quality assurance for the query and distribution systems of the RCSB Protein Data Bank |
title_full | Quality assurance for the query and distribution systems of the RCSB Protein Data Bank |
title_fullStr | Quality assurance for the query and distribution systems of the RCSB Protein Data Bank |
title_full_unstemmed | Quality assurance for the query and distribution systems of the RCSB Protein Data Bank |
title_short | Quality assurance for the query and distribution systems of the RCSB Protein Data Bank |
title_sort | quality assurance for the query and distribution systems of the rcsb protein data bank |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3056270/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21382834 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/database/bar003 |
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