World-Wide High Performance Network Mirroring of Public Genome Data
DNA and protein biosequence databanks are essential for advanced studies in
genome research. Such sequence data has been collected by the United
States, Japan and Europe since 1984. Software search engines such as
FASTA/BLAST are used to find homology sequences, and SRS for content
searching. These require huge local disks to store these databases. Mirror
servers have been set up to provide frequent updates to the databases;
however, they often fail due to the lack of existing network bandwidth.
This project aims to develop a reliable mirror server with high-speed data
transfer.
Due to increased human genome research, the data in DNA databases have been
increasing tremendously. The existing servers, however, are mainly
mirroring only US data to Japan. Establishing a bi-directional mirror
server will help to distribute data collected in many countries and deliver
them to researchers. This mirror server could not be established without a
high-speed and reliable connection.
