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Database Overload

Dec 12, 2008

Time to pop your vintage bottle of Veuve Clicquot! The database issue of Nucleic Acids Research has just been released, but don't get too excited, you might have to wait a minute to actually get on the site. It seems the journal's server is overloaded with visitors trying to download all the open access content, so expect some server time-out messages in your browser before you can have at it. The topics covered include database resources of the NCBI, petabyte-scale innovations of the European Nucleotide Archive, a look at Genebank, among others.

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