Comments on: Availability decay of Bioinformatics web resources : Yes widgets can change it

By: Scott Edmunds

Scott Edmunds — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:48:43 +0000

Been a bit slow to stumble upon this, but nice piece on decay of Bioinformatics web resources by @abhishektiwari http://bit.ly/cz0jny

By: abhishektiwari

abhishektiwari — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:09:22 +0000

Thanks for your comment Dr Raghava, in fact your group is an ideal example how to maintain bioiinformatics servers for long time which is always done in very limited resources. You are correct that updated data sets make old model/methods obsolete and at some point it will make no sense to use or maintain such web resources. Any data data intensive discipline has to cope with expiry of methods/tools but not in 2 years.

By: G P S Raghava

G P S Raghava — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:20:21 +0000

I agree with comments, question is what is solution for developers. Most of bioinformatics webservers are developed by biologist. Developing webserver using biologist is no problem using PERL/PHP but its difficult to create high standards. Its difficult to use complex language like Java which may provide platform independent or standard coding usable by other users. Second biological databases are growing so method trained on old data become obsolete in two or three years, it is not worth to maintain a webserver for long. Most of cases student/staff working in a group do not stay for long so it become impossible to maintain a webserver/ database. In addition computer is changing very fast so you have to shift your servers from old computer to new computer in every two years (average), which is a big headache. Above all you hardly got any credit to maintain your servers, most of persons are publishing and forgetting.

By: Pradeep

Pradeep — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:21:28 +0000

Ohh man, all bioinfo softwares published these days are useless, only difference is some are less useless than others.

By: John Manus

John Manus — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:11:49 +0000

Well said Abhishek. Issues of inaccessible software and databases is quite old now, unfortunately bioinformatics as community never learned from the past experiences.

By: Best Software

Best Software — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:24:36 +0000

Availability decay of Bioinformatics web resources : Yes widgets … http://bit.ly/cT9J6W

By: Abhishek Tiwari

Abhishek Tiwari — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:36:59 +0000

Availability decay of Bioinformatics web resources : Yes widgets can change it http://bit.ly/9KbWS2

By: Anil Thomas

Anil Thomas — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:36:59 +0000

Availability decay of Bioinformatics web resources : Yes widgets can change it http://bit.ly/9KbWS2 #science

By: Abhishek Tiwari

Abhishek Tiwari — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:05:31 +0000

RT @ResearchBlogs: Availability decay of Bioinformatics web resources : Yes widgets can change it http://goo.gl/fb/BhRt

By: Lis Duarte

Lis Duarte — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:05:27 +0000

RT @ResearchBlogs: Availability decay of Bioinformatics web resources : Yes widgets can change it http://goo.gl/fb/BhRt