A Survey of the Availability of Primary Bioinformatics Web Resources

The explosive growth of the bioinformatics field has led to a large amount of data and software applications publicly available as web resources. However, the lack of persistence of web references is a barrier to a comprehensive shared access. We conducted a study of the current availability and oth...

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Autores principales: Thireou, Trias, Spyrou, George, Atlamazoglou, Vassilis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2007
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Research Resource
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5054106/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17572367
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1672-0229(07)60017-5
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Sumario:The explosive growth of the bioinformatics field has led to a large amount of data and software applications publicly available as web resources. However, the lack of persistence of web references is a barrier to a comprehensive shared access. We conducted a study of the current availability and other features of primary bioinformatics web resources (such as software tools and databases). The majority (95%) of the examined bioinformatics web resources were found running on UNIX/Linux operating systems, and the most widely used web server was found to be Apache (or Apache-related products). Of the overall 1,130 Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) examined, 91% were highly available (more than 90% of the time), while only 4% showed low accessibility (less than 50% of the time) during the survey. Furthermore, the most common URL failure modes are presented and analyzed.

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