University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0743, USA.
Database (Oxford). 2011 Mar 7;2011:bar003. doi: 10.1093/database/bar003. Print 2011.
The RCSB Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB, www.pdb.org) is a key online resource for structural biology and related scientific disciplines. The website is used on average by 165,000 unique visitors per month, and more than 2000 other websites link to it. The amount and complexity of PDB data as well as the expectations on its usage are growing rapidly. Therefore, ensuring the reliability and robustness of the RCSB PDB query and distribution systems are crucially important and increasingly challenging. This article describes quality assurance for the RCSB PDB website at several distinct levels, including: (i) hardware redundancy and failover, (ii) testing protocols for weekly database updates, (iii) testing and release procedures for major software updates and (iv) miscellaneous monitoring and troubleshooting tools and practices. As such it provides suggestions for how other websites might be operated.
RCSB 蛋白质数据库（RCSB PDB，www.pdb.org）是结构生物学和相关科学领域的重要在线资源。该网站平均每月有 165,000 位独立访客访问，还有 2000 多个其他网站链接到它。PDB 数据的数量和复杂性以及对其使用的期望都在迅速增长。因此，确保 RCSB PDB 查询和分发系统的可靠性和稳健性至关重要，而且越来越具有挑战性。本文介绍了 RCSB PDB 网站在几个不同层面上的质量保证，包括：（i）硬件冗余和故障转移，（ii）每周数据库更新的测试协议，（iii）主要软件更新的测试和发布程序，以及（iv）各种监控和故障排除工具和实践。因此，它为其他网站的运营提供了建议。
