Figure 2
From: NFU-Enabled FASTA: moving bioinformatics applications onto wide area networks
High 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.