MaizeGDB: The Maize Model Organism Database for Basic, Translational, and Applied Research
Figure 2
Simplified infrastructure of MaizeGDB. The community of maize researchers can add
data to the database (downward-facing arrows from the uppermost yellow box) via
direct data deposition (upper left) and via a set of Community Curation Tools
that interacts with the Curation Database (upper center). Researchers are also allowed access to maize
data (upward-facing arrows from the lower dashed box) via a web interface that
can be accessed at http://www.maizegdb.org/
(upper right) and by way of SQL access to the Curation Database, which houses
the most up-to-date data available (upper center). These functionalities are supported by two of
the three environments: Production and
Staging, respectively (upper dashed gold boxes). Available for use by MaizeGDB personnel to
facilitate data modeling and trial programming manipulations is a third
environment called Test (lower left dashed gold box), which is identical to the
Staging Environment. To ensure that the
most up-to-date copy of the database is backed up, a Disaster Recovery process
has been instituted (lower center dashed gold box) whereby a compressed copy of
the database is backed up to a separate machine in Ames, Iowa daily, and to a
server in Columbia, Missouri weekly.