Figure 2From: NFU-Enabled FASTA: moving bioinformatics applications onto wide area networksHigh level schema for DB uploading server. The DB uploading server component, residing within the local IBP server, downloads the appropriate sequence complement from a centralized data warehouse (e.g., the FTP site at NCBI). It preprocesses chunks to ensure proper formatting, stripes the databases and uploads them into the IBP network. It also maintains a local mirror of the latest copy downloaded from the central warehouse; the backup store may be used if required depots are unavailable.Back to article page