Paper Info
Title
Quality assurance for the query and distribution systems of the RCSB Protein Data Bank.
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1093/database/bar003
DATABASE-THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL DATABASES AND CURATION
Keywords
Field
DocType
internet,quality control
Failover,Data mining,Computer science,Robustness (computer science),Software,Protein Data Bank,Quality assurance,The Internet,Troubleshooting,World Wide Web,Bioinformatics,Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB),Database
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
2011
1758-0463
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
14
12
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wolfgang Bluhm1519136.04
Bojan Beran21399.19
Chunxiao Bi334722.33
Dimitris Dimitropoulos435252.35
Andreas Prlic590793.82
Greg B. Quinn623715.95
Peter W Rose742129.05
Chaitali Shah800.34
Jasmine Young934321.42
Benjamin T. Yukich101399.19
Helen Berman113661681.16
Philip E. Bourne121995388.17