Fred Criscuolo wrote:
>> We would like to maintain an up to date copy of Genbank's dbest database
> locally. While I've seen instructions on how to download Genbank's databses
> via ftp, I've haven't found any tools to apply the daily updates. Pointers to
> applicable software (UNIX) and/or documentation will be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks.
The way to do it is to use FTP with the help of a Perl program mirror to check for
changes in remote directory. You then put a shell script, which starts up the
mirroring and in case of changes reformats your local dababase, in you crontab.
The official places for mirror are:
src.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.2.1]
directory: computing/archiving/mirror
(shortcut packages/mirror)
ftp.th-darmstadt.de [130.83.55.75]
directory: pub/networking/mirror
ftp.sun.ac.za [146.232.212.2]
directory: pub/packages/mirror
If you need to format dbest to GCG, there was earlier this month a series of
postings with subject "GenEMBL Update script" in bionet.software.gcg. Check that
thread out.
-Heikki
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