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Technical Summary

For a detailed description of the dictyBase architecture, please see the detailed architecture page
  • dictyBase is run on an Ubuntu Linux 6.06 Server running Apache and the programming language is Perl.
  • The database software is Oracle 10g Enterprise Server.
  • The database schema is a modified version of the Chado Database Schema.
  • The Genome Browser is an implementation of GBrowse from the Generic Model Organism Database Construction Set (GMOD).
  • The DHTML dropdown menus seen on every page are licensed from Milonic.

Special Thanks

The dictyBase Team



Rex L Chisholm, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator

Warren A. Kibbe, Ph.D.
Co-Principal Investigator

   
  From left to right: Marc Vincelli, Stock Center Research Technician; Eric Just, Software Engineer, dictyBase consultant; Yulia Bushmanova, Bioinformatics Software Engineer; Siddhartha Basu, Ph.D., Bioinformatics Software Engineer; Petra Fey, Scientific Curator; Pascale Gaudet, Ph.D., Scientific Curator, Stock Center P.I.; Robert Dodson, Scientific Curator  


Former Team Members




Karen Kestin
Former Scientific Curator

Sohel Merchant
Former Bioinformatics Software Engineer

Daniel Schneider
Former Bioinformatics Student