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Unexpected interruption in service.
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12/28/1999, 07:44 pm
We apologize for the inconvenience that the unexpected network outage from 1999.12.23 - 1999.12.27 caused for our users. The outage was not related to year 2000 problems, in case anyone is wondering. We expect our site to be fully operational through the new year. Thank you all for your continuing interest in the Ribosomal Database Project.
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Planned network outage.
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10/28/1999, 01:38 pm
Network service to the Ribosomal Database Project and other sites at Michigan State University will be unavailable from 5:30am to 7:00am on Friday, October 29.
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Probe Match update.
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10/18/1999, 01:02 pm
A minor correction has been made to the results from the Probe Match program. The output had incorrectly labeled the probe and target sequences, which has caused some confusion when interpreting the results. The labels are now correct. The actual results from the program were unaffected by this problem.
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Prokaryotes available in ARB format.
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10/08/1999, 05:05 pm
The RDP is now providing the release 7.1 data in an ARB-formatted file, available on the ftp server. Currently, only the Prokaryotes are available in this format (which has been compressed with gzip), but the other data sets will be available within a week or so. Newick trees for the Prokaryotic, Eukaryotic and Mitochondrial alignments (with RDP short ID's for ARB) are all available, as of October 11th.
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More fixes performed.
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10/07/1999, 03:27 pm
Access to the ftp site via HTTP (http://ftp.cme.msu.edu/pub/RDP/) has not been working for a few days. We've fixed the problem. This did not affect access via normal ftp clients, or web browsers using the FTP protocol (ftp://ftp.cme.msu.edu/pub/RDP/).
Also, some links in the online documentation have been corrected.
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Some fixes.
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10/05/1999, 04:13 pm
The "Mail Results" option was broken for several of the analysis programs over the weekend. This has been fixed, and should be working properly now. If you encounter any problems at all with the site, please let us know and we will deal with them as quickly as possible.
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Web site updates.
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09/24/1999, 05:57 pm
Some updates have been made to the RDP web site in order to facilitate user feedback and more readily supply information to our user community.
A new support mail program is in place which is linked at the bottom of most pages on this site, and will direct mail to the appropriate RDP staff member(s).
We have updated the documentation for our online analyses, and have created a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for each program.
A new announcement system is in place, which provides the latest news about the RDP.
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Mirror site planned for Japan.
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09/17/1999, 06:40 pm
We are happy to announce plans for an RDP mirror site in Japan. The mirror site is being developed in cooperation with the Laboratory for Molecular Classification in the Center for Information Biology at the National Institute of Genetics (NIG), Japan. This new mirror site should provide better access to RDP-II for researchers in that part of the world.
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RDP-II Release 7.1 is available.
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09/17/1999, 05:00 pm
Release 7.1 is here. It adds 1117 new sequences, over 850 are sequences from prokaryotic type strains. A special effort has been made to identify sequences from type material throughout the SSU prokaryotic datafile. The balance of the new sequences were chosen to represent more of the breadth of prokaryotic diversity. We have a new TAP T-RFLP analysis program, other analysis programs have been overhauled and support files have been greatly enhanced. Also, the URL for the RDP mainpage has changed slightly; make sure you update your bookmarks.
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Analyses have been updated.
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09/17/1999, 04:35 pm
Some changes have been made to the analysis programs, based on user requests. The file upload procedure has been modified to better handle your data during the upload process. Error messages have been rewritten to be more useful. Some slight cosmetic changes have also been made to the program output.
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A new RDP sequence selection tool is available.
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03/03/1999, 03:52 pm
A pre-release version of our new RDP Sequence Selection Tool is now available from the Analysis page. This location may change eventually. Since this is a pre-release, expect some of the functionality to change as we make improvements. Please look at the online documentation for more information. If you have any comments or questions about it, please send mail to RDP-II Information Systems Team.
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The citation for RDP is now available for the 1999 NAR article.
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01/18/1999, 09:22 am
The RDP-II citation has been updated for the 1999 NAR article.
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A process monitor is available for our server.
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11/24/1998, 08:46 pm
A process monitoring program is now available. If you are experiencing problems with the analysis programs, you may want to check there first to find out if the server is overloaded. If this is the case, please let us know, as it is usually due to a runaway process.
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New interfaces for Online Analyses!
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08/27/1998, 12:14 pm
The interfaces for the Check Probe, Sequence Match, Sequence Align, Chimera Check, and Alignment Slices have been updated. The old problem of incompatibilities with other web browsers has been resolved. File uploads now work with Netscape and Internet Explorer on all platforms. Also, Cut & Paste boxes are available for sequence entry on many of the analysis programs. Try it out, and let us know how it works! The remaining analysis programs are currently in the process of being updated and will be online as soon as they are available.
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A UIUC to MSU migration guide is online.
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07/21/1998, 01:35 pm
If you're familiar with the old website, the online migration guide can help you with the switch to our new site. Confused about how the new analysis functions compare to the functions at the old website? The answers are in the migration guide!
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The UIUC site is still available.
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07/21/1998, 01:42 pm
The former RDP website is still available at http://rdpwww.life.uiuc.edu/index2.html. Both sites contain the same release 7.0 data, but offer slightly different analysis functions. This will probably be the last data update for the old website.
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