Dear all As CCP4, we are currently developing the new CCP4i that will include a database application that will store project and job data. The database schema has already been designed but its design is not final and can be modified depending on user feedback. Now, we are in the process of writing the database API. Any suggestions and ideas regarding data storage and retrieval are welcome.
George Pelios CCP4 -----Original Message----- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andreas Förster Sent: 18 August 2010 10:53 To: [email protected] Subject: [ccp4bb] database-assisted data archive Dear all, going through some previous lab member's data and trying to make sense of it, I was wondering what kind of solutions exist to simply the archiving and retrieval process. In particular, what I have in mind is a web interface that allows a user who has just returned from the synchrotron or the in-house detector to fill in a few boxes (user, name of protein, mutant, light source, quality of data, number of frames, status of project, etc) and then upload his data from the USB stick, portable hard drive or remote storage. The database application would put the data in a safe place (some file server that's periodically backed up) and let users browse through all the collected data of the lab with minimal effort later. I doesn't seem too hard to implement this, which is why I'm asking if anyone has done so already. Thanks. Andreas -- Andreas Förster, Research Associate Paul Freemont & Xiaodong Zhang Labs Department of Biochemistry, Imperial College London http://www.msf.bio.ic.ac.uk
