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- From: gilbertd@chipmunk.bio.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert)
- Subject: IUBio Archive is up, still need disk drives
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:07:40 GMT
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- IUBio Archive has had it's main disk fail. This gigabyte
- disk drive will cost at least $1500 to replace. We have also
- been seeking support from the community who uses this
- archive to obtain more gigabytes of disk, to let me continue
- to make available to the public this biology software and data.
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- I've received around a dozen replies to my request for help.
- I thank all of those who have replied, but there are many
- more of you using this archive (hundreds to thousands of
- sites per week, at around 7000 transactions per week).
- If those of you who haven't sent word of support, but
- would like to see this archive continue to be available
- and expand it services could mail a note of support to
- archive@bio.indiana.edu
- it will help my efforts to obtain more disk drives.
- If you can pledge some funds, $50 or $25 or whatever,
- I'll welcome that. I have a lead for asking a grant
- agency, but that may not pan out (it hasn't yet).
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- The archive is now available again, but it is using
- a disk on loan from the Biology Department here on
- a strictly temporary basis. The Drosophila stock center,
- which purchased the current archive computer, can
- find funds to replace the the dead disk. I would be
- happy if those who are getting the most use of this
- disk, rather than the stock center, could help in
- replacing it, and in buying an expansion disk.
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- -- Don, 22 Jan 93
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- IUBIO ARCHIVE SEEKS CONTRIBUTIONS
- for a new disk drive
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- Since 1989, the IUBio Archive has been providing the
- scientific community with a useful collection of biology
- software, data and information services. This archive
- has been sponsored by Don Gilbert and Indiana University
- sources, and recently by the Bloomington Drosophila stock
- center thru an NSF Resources grant.
-
- During 1992, the archive thru FTP and Gopher has been
- serving out data to the biology scientific community at
- high rates. Roughly 2500 files per week are FTP'ed from
- the archive, and roughly 4500 gopher transactions per week
- are recorded (file transfers and queries).
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- Also during that time, I have experimented with new
- information services here, including Internet Gopher and
- WAIS service additions and modifications for biology
- databanks.
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- We are approaching capacity on the current 1 Gigabyte disk
- that serves this archive. I am having to spend more time
- throwing out or compressing data than I like. So far, I've
- preserved all the good stuff in this archive. But we need
- a new disk to expand services as I would like to, and to
- provide me with a blank canvas to draw more bioinformatics
- experiments on.
-
- Since the current hardware sponsor, the Drosophila stock
- center via NSF, is using only a small portion of this disk
- but needs more, I would like to ask if other sponsor(s)
- might contribute to this resource. Of course a large,
- popular use is the Gopher and WAIS searches of up-to-date
- GenBank and other molecular databanks, along with the
- popular software.
-
- Those of you who may know of an agency willing to
- contribute $2,000 for a new Gigabyte sized hard
- drive, please let me know. Those of you who may want to
- contribute in part to this disk drive fund, please also
- let me know.
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- -- Don Gilbert, 7 Dec 92
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- Don Gilbert gilbert@bio.indiana.edu
- biocomputing office, biology dept., indiana univ., bloomington, in 47405
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