A - CRS4 Bioinformatics FTP server

Our FTP server contains both software and databases we mirror from other sites (see below) and access to our own developments. This section describe what is found in the CRS4 directory ofthe FTP server.

directory	name	description
databases: Databases produced by the Bioinformatics Lab
software: software developed by the Bioinformatics Lab
	LaPsuS	a zope product which uses the Entrez API to query PubMed
	hatMart	a standalone application written in Java to query BioMarts around the world (beta version)
	PDBWidget	a widget for MacOsX (10.4), that retrieves the latest PDB entries from the PDB RSS feed.

B - FTP MIRROR @ CRS4

1 - What is an FTP mirror ?

It is a way to keep the files on our system up to date with the files on another (external) system. For our reasearch and services, we need up to date copies of all databases. We download them nightly in an automatic way from their original site to our own systems.
We have decided to make these copies available to the user community to facilitate data access for those having a good network connection with CRS4.

2 - What we mirror

site	directories	description
EBI - The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) FTP server provides a comprehensive archive of databases and software in the field of bioinformatics.
	databases	Database repository with : EMBL, hssp, InterPro, IntAct, IPI, pride, Uniprot, UniRef and more
	software	The Software Repository
NCBI - home of Blast and Genbank
	databases	UniGene, snp
	Blast/Fasta formatted	EST (human and mouse) , nr, nt, pdbaa, pdbnt
EXPASY
	databases	hamap, swissprot, uniprot
SANGER - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institiute
	databases	mirbase and vega
ENSEMBL - databases of vertebrate genomes
	databases	the current release of ensembl
Ontologies
	databases	GO, PO
EMBOSS - The European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite
	software	the whole emboss package

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