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Published on: January 20, 2022
A survey of the availability of primary bioinformatics web resources
Trias Thireou1, George Spyrou, Vassilis Atlamazoglou
1Biomedical Informatics Unit, Foundation for Biomedical Research of the Academy of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Abstract:
The explosive growth of the bioinformatics field has led to a large amount of data and software applications publicly available as web resources. However, the lack of persistence of web references is a barrier to a comprehensive shared access. We conducted a study of the current availability and other features of primary bioinformatics web resources (such as software tools and databases). The majority (95%) of the examined bioinformatics web resources were found running on UNIX/Linux operating systems, and the most widely used web server was found to be Apache (or Apache-related products). Of the overall 1,130 Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) examined, 91% were highly available (more than 90% of the time), while only 4% showed low accessibility (less than 50% of the time) during the survey. Furthermore, the most common URL failure modes are presented and analyzed.
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