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DDBJ activities and services will be terminated, changed, or temporarily suspended in February - March, 2007
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Cancellation of the requests in DDBJ's "Search & Analysis" services due to System change in NIG February 22, 2007
According to the NIG computer system replacement, DDBJ will shift the "Search & Analysis" service system to the new one in the end of February. The current system is terminated after the start of the new system. Unfortunately, the requests sent to the current system can not be transferred to the new system. Therefore, all the requests which have not been completed their execution within the current system runnning period will be cancelled. Details are as follows;
  • Services: FASTA, BLAST, PSI-BLAST, SSEARCH, ClustalW (either via WWW and E-mail)
  • Termination date of the Current system: March 9, 2007 ((Fri) 17:00
  • As of the above date, all the queries which are still remained in the current system are cancelled and are not transferred to the new system. Therefore, if you do not receive your results by February 9, please re-enter your requests to the new system.
  • Check the runnning status: Users can verify the status of the requests by "Traffic".
    Getting the results : "Result viewer" is also terminated as the same date.
  • URL Change: There are some services whose URLs are changed in the new system.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
 
   
Supernig and Minerva2 suspension February 21, 2007
With the replacement of new computer system in NIG, the New Supernig service operation will start from February 27 2007. Prior to the start of New Supernig, for the preliminary works such as data transfer, Supernig and Minerva2 are temporary unavailable at the following schedule.
unavailable period:
  • February 23, 2007 (Thu) 9:00 - February 27, 2007 (Wed) 9:00
Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.
 
   
Supernig and Minerva2 suspension February 21, 2007
With the replacement of new computer system in NIG, the New Supernig service operation will start from February 27 2007. Prior to the start of New Supernig, for the preliminary works such as data transfer, Supernig and Minerva2 are temporary unavailable at the following schedule.
unavailable period:
  • February 23, 2007 (Thu) 9:00 - February 27, 2007 (Wed) 9:00
Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.
 
   
System change from Minerva2 to New supernig February 21, 2007
With the replacement of new computer system in NIG, we are going to
terminate the "minerva" service and integrate this service into new
Supernig.
 We have already asked the minerva users to shift to  minerva2, 
however, according to this replacement, we ask further shift minerva2 
to new Supernig.

1: Outline

System Management Department(ddbjsys) will copy and place all data of 
minerva2 to the "temporary directory" in the new Supernig.

  *Schedule
    Feb.23 9:00-  Feb 27 9:00   copy all users' home data by ddbjsys
                                 (login unavailable)
    Feb 27 9:00-                New Supernig service  start
    Feb 27 9:00 -  Mar 30 17:00 Parallel operation period of minerva2 
                                and new Supernig 
            (transfer users' personal data from the "temporary directory"
             to users' own homes by users themselves) 
    Mar 30                      Termination of the "temporary directory" 
                                               

  *After the copy of the data is completed, we will announce the 
   start of the new Supernig service. Then, please transfer your 
   data to your home directory in the new Supernig and confirm it 
   carefully.

 < Caution>
 After the parallel operation period, users cannot access to the 
 "temporary directory". Please make sure that there is no data leakage.

   *If you need to access to old-system, please contact the
  System Management Department:ddbysys@ddbj.nig.ac.jp/ext.6891

2: New Login process

  *New Login process
   From NIG: same as before
   From Outside NIG: you need to do two-step login process

When you login from outside NIG, you need to do two-step login process
because of the security reason.
The telnet and ssh(plain text) is available to login.


*For more details, please refer to the address below.
(Japanese only. Sorry for your inconvenient)
 http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/search/explain/tologin_doc-j.html

3: About New system
  *HOST
   supernig.nig.ac.jp

  *Hardware
   Model:PRIMEPOWER2500
   Memory:64GB
   CPU performance:2.08GHz×16CPUs

  *Home directory
   /home/usrXX/user-name
   -10Gbyte is available per person(user?)

  *Operating system and its use
   As for the operating system, the version will be upgraded from 
   Solaris8 to Solaris10. We recommend you to recompile your 
   programme in this time.

 About the outline and the use of this system, we place the 
 instruction documents in supernig as follows.(to read them, 
  use "more" command,  for example)

  1: Outline of PRIMEPOWER2500(Japanese only)
     /usr/local/doc/PW2500/intro
  2: How to use each compiler
     /usr/local/doc/PW2500/cmpl
  3: How to execute the program,  and its environment
     /usr/local/doc/PW2500/run

 You can see this announce in the system login message.


For more information, ask by E-mail or call System Management Department
ddbjsys@ddbj.nig.ac.jp/ext.6891
 
   
About the New Supernig service February 21, 2007
With the replacement of new computer system in NIG, the New Supernig
service operation will start from February 27 2007.
To shift the new system smoothly, please follow the guide-line below.
Thank you for your cooperation in advance.

1: Outline

  *Schedule
    Feb.23 9:00-  Feb 27 9:00  Copy all users' home data to the New Supernig
 
                               (login unavailable)
    Feb 27 9:00-               New Supernig service  start

   With the system replacement to the new Supernig, System Management 
   Department(ddbjsys)  will copy all users' data of present Supernig  
   in block.
   After the completion of this copy, the start of the new Supernig 
   service will be announced. Then, please confirm your personal 
   data by yourself.

If you need to access to old-system, please contact the
System Management Department:ddbysys@ddbj.nig.ac.jp/ext.6891

2: New Login process

  *New Login process
   From NIG: same as before
   From Outside NIG: you need to do two-step login process

When you login from outside NIG, you need to do two-step login process
because of the security reason.
The telnet and ssh(plain text) is available to login.

*For more details, please refer to the address below.
(Japanese only. Sorry for your inconvenient)
 http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/search/explain/tologin_doc-j.html

3: About New system
 
 *HOST
   supernig.nig.ac.jp

  *Hardware
   Model:PRIMEPOWER2500
   Memory:64GB
   CPU performance:2.08GHz×16CPUs

  *Home directory
   /home/usrXX/user-name
   -10Gbyte is available per person(user?)

  *Operating system and its use
   As for the operating system, the version will be upgraded from 
   Solaris8 to Solaris10. We recommend you to recompile your programme 
   in this time.

  About the outline and the use of this system, we place the instruction 
  documents in supernig as follows.(to read them, use "more" command,  
  for example)

  1: Outline of PRIMEPOWER2500(Japanese only)
    /usr/local/doc/PW2500/intro
  2: How to use each compiler
    /usr/local/doc/PW2500/cmpl
  3: How to execute the program,  and its environment
    /usr/local/doc/PW2500/run

You can see this announce in the system login message.

For more information, ask by E-mail or call System Management Department
ddbjsys@ddbj.nig.ac.jp/ext.6891

 
   
Change of "How to create Links to DDBJ entries February 20, 2007
In DDBJ, you can create links to individual DDBJ entries directly. According to the system replace scheduled in this February-March, the method "How to create links to DDBJ entries" is changed. In the new method, for example, a link to an entry with accession number AB000001 is as follows.

http://getentry.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/search/get_entry?accnumber=AB000001

If you use this setting method, please change it to the new method. Thank you for your coopeeration.
 
   
URL change in DDBJ WWW services February 5, 2007
The computer system in the National Institute of Genetics will be replaced in this March. According this replacement, there are some WWW services whose URLs are changed. Please update your links to new URLs. Presently, both new and old URLs are accessible for a while. But, eventually, old URLs will be stopped.
 
NameCurrent URL
New URL
TXSearch http://sakura.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/uniTax.html
http://txsearch.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/
PDB
Retriever
http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/search/
http://pdbret.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/
SSThread terminate as of 2007/2/23
CAMUS terminate as of 2007/2/23
Lib score http://hypernig.nig.ac.jp/cgi-bin/Lib-score/
http://libscore.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/
Search &
Analysis
http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/search/Welcome-e.html
http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/search/
FASTA http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/search/fasta-e.html
http://fasta.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/
BLAST http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/search/blast-e.html
http://blast.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/
PSI-BLAST http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/search/psi_blast-e.html
http://psiblast.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/
SSEARCH http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/search/ssearch-e.html
http://ssearch.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/
ClustalW http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/search/clustalw-e.html
http://clustalw.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/
hmmpfam New service
http://hmmpfam.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/
LIBRA http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/search/
http://libra.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/

The system will be switched in the late in February. It might difficult to access DDBJ HP and WWW services during 10days after switching to the new system. In such a case, please try to access again after a while.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
 
   
Termination of "CAMUS" and "SSThread" services 2007.2.2
According to the NIG computer systtem replacement, DDBJ will terminate providing the following services as of February 23.
  • SSThread :Prediction of protein secondary structure using threading
  • CAMUS : compressed database for homology seraches
Thank you for using this service for a long time.
 
   
Important: Temporary halt of the DDBJ activities (SAKURA and TXSearch unavailable) 2007.1.31
DDBJ will completely suspend its activities of the DNA database (data submission, update, and release) in the following schedule, because of the related works for the NIG computer system replacement.
If you plan to submit your data to DDBJ and obtain accession numbers in February, please keep the period mentioned below in mind.
DDBJ activity suspension
  • Feb.22 (Thu) 17:00- Feb.28 (Wed) 9:00
    (SAKURA and TXSearch also stop operations during the same period)
Thank you very much for your understanding and cooperationin advance.
 
 
   
NIG Network service temporary down in January and February 2007 2006.12.25
NIG (National Institute of Genetics) network service will be unavailable at the following date, because of the preli minary works for the computer system replacement in NIG scheduled in this March.
All DDBJ network services and NIG supercomputer (supernig and minerva2) service will also be unavailable.
Network suspension
  • Jan.26 (Fri), 2007 - Jan.28 (Sun)
  • Feb.3 (Sat), 2007 - Feb.4 (Sun)
Reason:Network maintenance

According this suspension, SAKURA will also be unavailable at the following schedule.
SAKURA suspension
  • From Jan. 26 (Fri) 15:00 to Janu. 29 (Mon) 9:00
  • From Feb. 2 (Fri) 15:00 to Feb. 5 (Mon) 9:00

Thank you very much for your understanding and cooperation.
 
   
Important: Temporary halt of the DDBJ activities in February, 2007 2006.12.25
The computer system in the National Institute of Genetics will be replaced with an upgraded one by March, 2007.
Consequently, DDBJ will suspend its activity completely from February 22 to February 27.
If you plan to submit your data to DDBJ and obtain accession numbers in February, 2007, please keep the period mentioned above in mind.
Thank you very much for your understanding and cooperationin advance.
 
 
   
NIG Network service temporary down in January and February 2007 2006.12.25
NIG (National Institute of Genetics) network service will be unavailable at the following date, because of the preliminary works for the computer system replacement in NIG scheduled in this March.
All DDBJ network services and NIG supercomputer (supernig and minerva2) service will also be unavailable.
Network suspension
  • Jan.26 (FRI), 2007 - Jan.28 (SUN)
  • Feb.3 (SAT), 2007 - Feb.4 (SUN)
Reason:Network maintenance

According this suspension, SAKURA will also be unavailable at the following schedule.
SAKURA suspension
  • From January 26 (Fri) 15:00 to January 29 (Mon) 9:00
  • From February 2 (Fri) 15:00 to February 5 (Mon) 9:00

Thank you very much for your understanding and cooperation.
 
 
Termination of minerva (in Japanese) 2006.12.1
For details, please see this page.
 
   
Important: Temporary halt of databank activities in February 2007 Nov. 15, 2006
The computer system in the National Institute of Genetics will be replaced with an upgraded one by March, 2007.
Consequently, DDBJ will suspend its activity completely for about a week in late February, 2007. The exact dates will be announced on the home page of DDBJ later in December, 2006.
If, in particular, you plan to submit your data to DDBJ and obtain accession numbers in February, 2007, please keep the dates to be announced in mind.
Thank you very much for your understanding and cooperation in advance.
 
 
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