Technical Summary

For a detailed description of the dictyBase architecture, please see the detailed architecture page

• dictyBase is run on an Ubuntu Linux 6.06 Server running Apache and the programming language is Perl.
  
• The database software is Oracle 10g Enterprise Server.
  
• The database schema is a modified version of the Chado Database Schema.
  
• The Genome Browser is an implementation of GBrowse from the Generic Model Organism Database Construction Set (GMOD).
  
• The DHTML dropdown menus seen on every page are licensed from Milonic.

Special Thanks

• National Institutes of Health (NIH) for their funding of this project.
• Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD) who gave us all of the source code and database schema used to implement the first version of dictyBase.
• International consortium of the Dictyostelium Genome Project from which we received the complete set of chromosomes and predicted gene models.
• Japanese cDNA project where another particularly large set of data came from, namely, the ESTs.
• All researchers who have made their data/results publicly available in GenBank.

The dictyBase Team

Rex L Chisholm, Ph.D. Principal Investigator Warren A. Kibbe, Ph.D. Co-Principal Investigator
		From left to right: Kerry Sheppard, Stock Center Research Technician; Siddhartha Basu, Ph.D, Lead Bioinformatics Software Engineer; Petra Fey, Senior Scientific Curator, Stock Center Manager; David Jimenez-Morales Ph.D., Bioinformatics Software Engineer; Robert Dodson, Scientific Curator.

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Former Team Members

Yogesh Pandit Former Bioinformatics Software Engineer, January 2012 - October 2013 Pascale Gaudet Ph.D. Former Scientific Curator, March 2003 - September 2010, dictyBase consultant October 2010 - June 2013 Yulia Bushmanova Former Bioinformatics Software Engineer, June 2008 - July 2011 Eric Just Former Lead Bioinformatics Software Engineer, August 2002 - February 2008 Marc Vincelli Former Stock Center Technician, April 2009 - February 2010 Karen Kestin Former Scientific Curator, November 2003 - February 2007 Sohel Merchant Former Bioinformatics Software Engineer, June 2003 - July 2007 Daniel Schneider Former Bioinformatics Student, two rotations in 2006