Outage tonight for server upgrade

Wormbase will be unavailable for roughly one hour tonight from 10:00-11:00 EST 
for a database server upgrade.  During this time, please use one of the 
WormBase mirrors:

	http://worm.imbb.forth.gr/
	http://aceserver.cshl.org
	http://brie2.cshl.org:8081

Lincoln Stein

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Lincoln D. Stein                           Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
lstein <at> cshl.org			                  Cold Spring Harbor, NY
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WormBase release WS97 now online

This is an automatic announcement that WormBase
(http://www.wormbase.org) has just been updated.  New releases occur
every two weeks.

The text of the AceDB release notes, which contains highlights of the
new data is attached.  You can download the full AceDB files from:

   ftp://ftp.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/current_release/

New Release of acedb WS97, Wormpep97 and Wormrna97 Fri Mar  7 2003
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This directory includes:
i)	database.WS97.*.tar.gz    -   compressed data for new release
ii)	models.wrm.WS97           -   the latest database schema (also in above database files)
iii)	CHROMOSOMES/subdir        -   contains 3 files (DNA, GFF & AGP per chromosome)
iv)	WS97-WS96.dbcomp          -   log file reporting difference from last release
v)	wormpep97.tar.gz          -   full Wormpep distribution corresponding to WS97
vi)	wormrna97.tar.gz          -   latest WormRNA release containing non-coding RNA's in the genome
vii)	confirmed_genes.WS97.gz   -   DNA sequences of all genes confirmed by EST &/or cDNA

Release notes on the web:
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http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/C_elegans/WORMBASE

Primary databases used in build WS97
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brigdb : 2003-02-21 - updated
camace : 2003-02-25 - updated
citace : 2003-02-23 - updated

WormBase back up

Hello,

We experienced a server crash on Sunday March 9, which brought down
WormBase for a period of several hours.  The primary suspect for the
crash is an intermittent hardware problem that we have been attempting
to track down for the past several weeks.  Since the database was
already down, we took the opportunity to swap in a replacement
motherboard for the server machine, in effect performing a "brain
transplant."  If the problem persists, we will be replacing the server
entirely during the third week of March.  You will be advised of any
scheduled downtime.

My apologies for any inconvenience Sunday's outage might have caused.

Lincoln Stein

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Lincoln D. Stein                           Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
lstein <at> cshl.org			                  Cold Spring Harbor, NY
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WormBase user survey now closed

Many thanks to each of the 405 respondents to the WormBase users'
survey.  We are tabulating the results now and will announce the mug
winners shortly.  Your assistance will help us make WormBase a better
resource for the community.

Yours truly,

Lincoln Stein

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Lincoln D. Stein                           Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
lstein <at> cshl.org			                  Cold Spring Harbor, NY
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User's survey is now closed

Many thanks to each of the 402 respondents to the WormBase users'
survey.  We are tabulating the results now and will announce the mug
winners shortly.  Your assistance will help us make WormBase a better
resource for the community.

Yours truly,

Lincoln Stein

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Lincoln D. Stein                           Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
lstein <at> cshl.org			                  Cold Spring Harbor, NY
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Re: mug winners

The results of the WormBase user's survey random drawing are now posted on the 
WormBase web site.  Congratulations to each of the ten lucky winners.  Your 
WormBase coffee mugs are in the mail!

Lincoln Stein

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Lincoln D. Stein                           Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
lstein <at> cshl.org			                  Cold Spring Harbor, NY
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