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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOINFORMATICS HongKong-Hanoi-Nansha 27 - 31 August 2007 Tutorial 3: Configuring P2P for Wide Area Narrow Band Large Dataset Dissemination Tutorial Presenters Amornrat Phongdara Professor, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand Director of Center for Genomic and Bioinformatics Research Unitsa Sangket Computer Scientist, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand. Pitipol Prince of Songkla University, Thailand. Tutorial PPT Presentation (30mins): P2P Workshop for Automatic Synchronization and Distribution of Biological Databases and Software over Low-Bandwidth Networks Unitsa Sangket1, Amornrat Phongdara1, Wilaiwan Chotigeat1, Darran Nathan2, Woo-Yeon Kim3, Jong Bhak3, Chumpol Ngamphiw4, Sissades Tongsima4, Honghuang Lin5 and Tin Wee Tan 2,5 1 Prince of Songkla University, Thailand; 2 Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network; 3 Korean Bioinformation Center (KOBIC), South Korea; 4 BIOTEC Thailand; 5 National University of Singapore, Singapore. User Guide on installation of P2P System (Hands-on): Automatic Synchronization and Distribution of Biological Databases and Software over Low-Bandwidth Networks among Developing Countries - P2P Node Setup Guide Go to P2P Wiki website http://everest.bic.nus.edu.sg/p2p/index.php/Main_Page Participants All are welcome. Please bring your laptop if you are interested to follow the demonstration by installing the system on your machine and practise setting up the system and configuring it to mirror test databases. Introduction Dissemination of Biological Data is a major problem not just for developing countries but also for many research and educational institutions which have limitations in time, manpower and resources such as bandwidth to cope with the ever-increasing volume of data. A comprehensive list of databases frequently used in the bioscientific laboratory can typically scale from several hundred gigabytes to several terabytes. In addition, these databases are frequently updated, and many of them such as Genbank or PDB are live databases which are constantly being updated. To carry out large database searches often requires a laboratory to mount local resources. To support teaching of a class of 50 students and above, would typically require local resources to be mounted in order to support a good response time for something as simply as a class on BLAST to more sophisticated practical projects For many local bioinformation resources in the Asia Pacific, the problem of constantly mirroring databases and keeping them up to date was previously addressed by developing a Bio-Mirror resource at http://bio-mirror.net which is distributed to key major nodes in a dozen countries (Gilbert et al., 2004. Bio-Mirror project for public bio-data distribution Bioinformatics 20:3238-3240). However, the distribution within a country to local institutions now became a bottleneck. To address this problem, we have embarked on a solution to make use of P2P distribution mechanisms to construct different levels of biodatabase distribution in places where bandwidth is a limitation. This project was funded through a research grant awarded by the PAN Asia Networking R&D Grant of the IDRC, AMIC and APNIC to TW Tan, National University of Singapore and A Phongdara, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand (2005). Since then, we have tested nodes in Korea (KOBIC), Singapore (NUS) and Thailand (PSU, BIOTEC) for operational scalability (Unitsa Sangket, et al 2007, Manuscript in preparation). In this tutorial, the Thailand team will present the P2P system as a tutorial demonstration and a hands-on workshop, and will encourage you to set up this system at your institution to receive high throughput database updates at low bandwidth requirements.