[DAS] System requirements

[Ewan Birney]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Todd Taylor wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> We are thinking about setting up a DAS server at our institute here in
> Japan.


Great!

> 
> Can anyone give us some recommendations as for the installation system
> requirements? What kind of system (OS, memory, hard disk, cpu) are
> others running it on?

People run it on standard linux boxes. I would have (ideally) a separate
machine but it could be just a beefy linux box, probably outside your
firewall with the database you will be using and apache (and of course,
well locked down if it is outside your firewall with no nfs mounts to
disks inside your firewall)


> 
> And, can anyone explain the difference between the Dazzle server and
> LDAS?
> 

Dazzle - is BioJava based

LDAS - is BioPerl based


Both need a database backend, and in both cases they work with mysql.

The database backends are very simple (unlike, say, the beast which is
Ensembl)




> I tried to find the answers to the above on the web pages and in the
> archives with little luck, maybe looking in the wrong place....
> 
> I would really appreciate your advice/suggestions.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Todd Taylor
> 
> 
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