Babase -- The Wiki
Contents
Using Babase
Accessing Data
Access the Database Via phpPgAdmin (You know you want to!)
Working Data Drafts - Before using any of the data linked or referred to on this page, please contact the Babase Administrator
ABRP Genomics Public Portal - Anonymized genomic data made available to the public; Babase users will likely prefer access to the original data via the database or the command line
Learning
The Babase Wiki -- The Babase website, you can help improve it!
Babase Help -- Other help links
Babase Best Practices -- Tips and suggestions to keep in mind while using the database
Babase Quiz -- New Users must take this quiz before starting work with babase. See Niki or Jake for information
Reference Material
The Babase System Technical Specifications (Web, un-paginated) (Web, paginated)
Babase/Chado -- Genetic Data (PDF) (Web, un-paginated) (Web, paginated)
Babase user FAQs
Other Babase Documentation - Wish List, To Do's Etc
Data Management
Data Management Tasks - primarily for use by Niki and Jake
Photo Organizer - a photo repository (currently undergoing testing)
Status of Babase Datasets
Dataset |
Last Updated |
Data Included |
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Group Membership and Life Events* |
1 Feb 2021 |
Data through Dec 2020 |
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Demography backfill |
1 Feb 2021 |
Demography note and confidence assignment backfill - complete for Linda's, Weaver's, Omo's, Viola's, Nyayo's, Proton's, and Dotty's groups (though some ranks may require adjusting); Hook's group backfill for 1990-1993 complete, 1994 now in progress. |
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Sexual Cycles** |
1 Feb 2021 |
Cycling data through Dec 2020 (data for the TZ loss and prior requires some correction once cycgaps issues are fixed); sexskins & pcskins through Dec 2016 and backfilled through 1997 (except for Joy's and Nzige's 1997 data, which throw a lot of errors, and Acacia's 2012 + some data for Kelly in 2012, which throw mdate errors due to a failure of the code to deal properly with data subsequent to these females' cycgaps) |
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Interaction Data |
Aug 2020 |
Data through Jun 2020 |
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SWERB Data |
2-3x/ each week |
Data until ~(at most) 7 days previous to today |
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Rankdates Table |
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Data Through Dec 2019 (by dates assigned to obviously-adult immigrants and males > 7yrs, 5mos and residing in nonstudy groups updated through same quarter as demography and repro tables) |
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Ranks Table |
Sep 2020 |
ALM/ADM through Dec 2019; ALF/ADF through Dec 2019 |
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Min_Maxs view |
1 Feb 2021 |
temp and rain data from Aug 1976 through Dec 2020 |
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Weatherhawk |
2 Feb 2021 |
WeatherHawk meterological data through Dec 2020 |
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Wounds and Pathologies |
2 Feb 2021 |
tables and views beginning with wp_ through Dec 2020 |
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Princeton babase_pending tables |
2 Feb 2021 |
neonatals, subgroups, intergroup_encounters, hybridity_rawmorpho, deaths, & corpse_info through Dec 2020 |
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Duke babase_pending tables |
Aug 2020 |
Predation_By, Predation_On, Human_Disturb through Jun 2020 |
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Genetic Inventory: DNA |
Updated constantly, as needed |
Extracted DNA's/RNA's |
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Genetic Inventory: Tissue |
Updated constantly, as needed |
All tissues that are or ever have been at Duke and Notre Dame |
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Genetic Markers: msat_reactions |
2016 |
Reaction info through plate 391 |
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Genetic Markers: msat_results |
2016 |
Results data through plate 391 |
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Genetic Markers: Genotypes |
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All finalized genotypes through end of year 2016 |
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Fecal: Prep |
13 Jun 2016 |
Fecal samples through 29 Aug 2015 |
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Fecal: Results |
13 Jun 2016 |
All hormones through 11 Feb 2015 |
Source Code
All of the Babase source code is freely available right here.
Acknowledgments
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the National Science Foundation for the supporting the collection of the majority of the data stored in the database; in the past decade in particular we acknowledge support from IBN 9985910, IBN 0322613, IBN 0322781, BCS 0323553, BCS 0323596, DEB 0846286, DEB 0846532 and DEB 0919200. We are also very grateful for support from the National Institute of Aging (R01AG034513-01 and P01AG031719) and the Princeton Center for the Demography of Aging (P30AG024361). We also thank the Chicago Zoological Society, the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation and the National Geographic Society for support at various times over the years.
Building your own database
If you're interested in building a database of your own, we have some advice.