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ArticleDatabase : the journal of biological databases and curation2011

Quality assurance for the query and distribution systems of the RCSB Protein Data Bank.

Wolfgang F Bluhm, Bojan Beran, Chunxiao Bi, Dimitris Dimitropoulos, Andreas Prlic, Gregory B Quinn, Peter W Rose, Chaitali Shah, Jasmine Young, Benjamin Yukich and 2 more

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Article in Database : the journal of biological databases and curation, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Structural genomics and the Protein Data Bank.The Journal of biological chemistry
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Wolfgang F BluhmUniversity of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0743, USA. wbluhm@ucsd.edu
Bojan Beran
Chunxiao Bi
Dimitris Dimitropoulos
Andreas Prlic
Gregory B Quinn
Peter W Rose
Chaitali Shah
Jasmine Young
Benjamin Yukich
Helen M Berman
Philip E Bourne

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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.

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ComputersDatabases, ProteinInternetQuality ControlSoftwareUser-Computer Interface

Identifiers

PMID21382834
PMCPMC3056270

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