Re: [EMBOSS] ftp server down?

2013-09-10 Thread Hamish McWilliam 

Just FYI: For the past few hours, the emboss ftp server seems to be down.

Also, are there any mirrors?


I am aware of two mirrors for the EMBOSS distribution:

* EMBL-EBI: ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/software/unix/EMBOSS/
* IUBio Archive:
- http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu/soft/molbio/emboss/
- ftp://iubio.bio.indiana.edu/molbio/emboss/

In my experience the main EMBOSS FTP server (ftp://emboss.open-bio.org/) 
is temperamental and often has issues with connectivity, so you are 
probably better off using a mirror if possible.


If you are only looking for the software, and can handle the slight lag 
for packaging, then you might want to use prepackaged versions for your 
system:


* RPM based systems:
- http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat=3search=EMBOSS
- http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=emboss
* Debain (.deb) based systems:
- http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=emboss

All the best,

Hamish
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Mr Hamish McWilliam,
Web Production,
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI),
European Molecular Biology Laboratory,
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus,
Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD
United Kingdom

URL: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/


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Re: [EMBOSS] ftp server down?

2013-09-10 Thread Peter Cock 
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Hamish McWilliam h...@ebi.ac.uk wrote:
 Just FYI: For the past few hours, the emboss ftp server seems to be down.

 Also, are there any mirrors?

 I am aware of two mirrors for the EMBOSS distribution:

 ...

 In my experience the main EMBOSS FTP server (ftp://emboss.open-bio.org/) is
 temperamental and often has issues with connectivity, so you are probably
 better off using a mirror if possible.

Ah - emboss.open-bio.org is still running on the old web-server
and appears to have been missed in the initial migration to the
new OBF web-server running on the Amazon cloud:
http://news.open-bio.org/news/2012/11/server-transition-to-aws/

I've CC'd the root-l mailing list so our volunteer SysAdmin team
know about this.

(Right now the old server seems to be running FTP OK, but
it would not surprise me to hear it is temperamental.)

Thanks,

Peter C.
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