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DATABASE-THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL DATABASES AND CURATION
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OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/database/bar003
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- National Science Foundation (NSF) [DBI 0829586]
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
- Office of Science, Department of Energy (DOE)
- National Library of Medicine (NLM)
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
- Div Of Biological Infrastructure [0829586] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The RCSB Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB, www.pdb.org) is a key online resource for structural biology and related scientific disciplines. The website is used on average by 165 000 unique visitors per month, and more than 2000 other websites link to it. The amount and complexity of PDB data as well as the expectations on its usage are growing rapidly. Therefore, ensuring the reliability and robustness of the RCSB PDB query and distribution systems are crucially important and increasingly challenging. This article describes quality assurance for the RCSB PDB website at several distinct levels, including: (i) hardware redundancy and failover, (ii) testing protocols for weekly database updates, (iii) testing and release procedures for major software updates and (iv) miscellaneous monitoring and troubleshooting tools and practices. As such it provides suggestions for how other websites might be operated.
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