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Services for UAMS Users
BIC has created the infrastrucre for bioinformatics at UAMS (University
of Arkansas for Medical Sciences) in order to provide the bioinformatics
related services to UAMS users. Users can access these resources (databases,
software and web tools) from their computers via local area network of
UAMS. BIC server is UNIX based (IRIX 6.5, Origin 300) but we have shared
the resources via SAMBA server so the MAC and DOS user can access. The
resources can be divided in three categories; i) Databases; ii) Software
Packages; and iii) Web Services. How
to access these facilities is given below. Following is the brief description
of services.
Databases
BIC has collected most of the protein and nucleotide sequences databases
available free for academic users world-wide. These databases includes
all the genomes and proteomes (annonated only). These databases are available
in following two formats
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BLAST : All the databases has been converted
into BLAST format so that user can perform BLAST search against these databases
from their local computer. This service is useful when you want to use
BLAST for large number of sequences or from using internal/local program.
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FASTA: The databases are stored in FASTA format
that allows user to perform similarity search using computer program that
need sequence in fasta format (e.g. FASTA). As well as you can extract
or view the sequence in FASTA format.
You can access these databases from your UNIX
or DOS/Windows or
MAC machine.
Software Packages
BIC is maintaining mirror of number of sites who collect and maintain
the biological software. These software are developed by academicians for
solving the biological problem. These are called public domain software
and free for academic or noncommercial users. Following are major sites.
University Indian, USA: This university is
maintaining software from 1989 and have a large collection. Click for detail
European Bioinformatics Institute, UK: EBI
maintain software for operating system DOS, UNIX and VAX/VMS. Click for
detail.
PDSB from IMTECH, India: Institute of Microbial
Technology, created a databases of biological software called 'Public
Domain Software in Biology (PDSB)' . Click for detail
You can access these software from your UNIX
or DOS/Windows or
MAC machine.
Web Services
BIC is in process of developing web interfaces for Internal users.
Following are few sites has been implemented/developed so far.
AMAD: This server
allow to store, retrieve and view the Microarray data.
Rweb : Allows user to perform
to solve their statistical problems via web. This is based on R language.
How to Access
the Facilities
These facilities are available to Windows/DOS, UNIX and MAC users.
We provide these services via Samba server for MAC & Windows
users and via NFS for UNIX machines. You can access all above resources
from your UNIX or DOS/Windows
or MAC machine.
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