Public Databases Hosted by BeSTGRID
From BeSTGRID
[edit] New Zealand Biomirror
- Project Lead
- Prof Allen Rodrigo
- Usage
- 5 TB
- Project Description
Bio-Mirror is a public bioinformatics service in New Zealand for high-speed access to up-to-date DNA & protein biological sequence databanks. In genome research, these databanks have been being growing tremendously, so much that distribution of them is hampered by existing Internet speeds. The Bio-Mirror project is devoted to facilitate timely access to important large data sets for this research. High speed access is provided by Internet2 infrastructure of the Very High Speed Backbone Service (vBNS), Abilene, TransPAC, the Australian Academic Research Network (AARNet) and the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN).
Using Standalone BeSTGRID BLAST Server for high-speed search of GenBank (a database of protein sequences).
[edit] New Zealand Social Sciences Data Service
- Project Lead
- Dr. Daniel Patrick
- Project Description
Established in August 2007, NZSSDS provides access to New Zealand social science survey data and metadata, with online analysis, and download, available through registration. NZSSDS also provides a wiki environment for collaborative documents, and a set of analytical tools.
The NZSSDS data catalogues use Nesstar software for the dissemination of data and metadata, with a web interface for viewing, analysing, and downloading data sets. To provide data safety mechanism 7 days incremental backup procedure has been implemented.
[edit] Austronesian Basic Vocabulary and Bantu Language Databases
- Project Lead
- Prof Russell Gray
- Usage
- .5 TB
- Project Description
- Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: This database contains 125,000 lexical items from 580 languages spoken throughout the Pacific region. These languages all belong to the Austronesian language family, which is the largest family in the world. It contains between 1,000 and 1,200 languages.
- Bantu Language Database: This database contains 2,388 lexical items from 6 Bantu languages
[edit] Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)
- Project Lead
- Dr Mark J. Costello
- Usage
- OBIS virtual machine on Pleyads, 20GB of disk space.
- Project Description
- OBIS publishes data on behalf of scientists from government agencies, museums, universities, commercial companies, and non-governmental organisations. OBIS is always seeking new contributors.
- OBIS is a marine biogeographic information system, meaning that we concentrate on datasets that record particular species (or higher taxonomic group) from particular marine locations, at particular times. At present, we can only publish data where the locations are recorded as latitude and longitude, not as place names. Our focus is on high taxonomic quality, so datasets where organisms have been identified by professional or trained biologists are our priority. In the near future, we will be expanding to take in environmental datasets (i.e. coverage of physical, chemical, and geological parameters) that are relevant to understanding the distribution of species. So we are interested in hearing from potential contributors of these datasets, and welcome your contact, but are still in the process building this facility.
