Archive for the ‘OBDA / BioSQL’ Category

BioSQL v1.0.1 released

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

This is a belated news entry announcing the second BioSQL v1.0 (code-named Tokyo) release, v1.0.1, which was made on August 2, 2008. It is available from the BioSQL downloads page. This version of the schema should be fully backwards compatible with the v1.0.0 schema for nearly all software and queries. The ...

BioSQL v1.0.0 released

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

After a long wait and several earlier attempts, version 1.0.0 (code-named Tokyo, see below) of BioSQL has finally been released. The release can be downloaded at http://biosql.org/DIST/ as .tar.gz, .tar.bz, and Zip (which also has Windows-style end-of-line characters) archives. The full release announcement can be found in the BioSQL mailing ...

Slides of Bioperl-db / BioSQL talk at BOSC03

Sunday, September 21st, 2003

I posted the slides for the Bioperl-db/BioSQL talk I gave at BOSC03. -hilmar

Server downtime announcement

Saturday, August 30th, 2003

Hi Everyone, Apologies for the mass cross-posting but this email is about server and IP changes that will affect all of our projects and servers. Simply put -- Wyeth, the company that provides us with our hosting and wonderful T3 connection to the internet is cutting their internet connection circuits over from ...

The Open Biological Database Access (OBDA) introduction for BioPerl

Thursday, June 12th, 2003

Do you need to access sequences from multiple places? Would you like to easily retrieve your own local sequences from indexed flat files, all other sequences on species X from department wide raletional database and the rest from global internet servers? The Open Biological Database Access (OBDA) System was designed so that one could use ...

BioSQL and Bioperl-db inching towards release

Friday, May 23rd, 2003

Hilmar writes: I got the Oracle version of the biosql schema fully migrated, at least as far as I can tell from here. I'm going to commit the new version some time today. There will also be a sql*plus migration script from pre-Singapore to the current version that supposedly keeps your ...

PostgreSQL issues with bioperl-db

Friday, February 28th, 2003

Hilmar writes: Here's the background. The current code in the bioperl-db adaptors to biosql run the connection with AutoCommit off, which means the client determines the transaction. Load_seqdatabase.pl (the main script for loading databases into biosql) treats one sequence entry as one transaction. If any sql statement required for loading the sequence ...