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* |
26 Jul 2021 |
Data through Jun 2021 |
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Demography backfill |
30 Apr 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 1990-1994 complete. |
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Sexual Cycles** |
26 Jul 2021 |
Cycling data through Jun 2021 (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 |
Apr 2021 |
Data through Mar 2021 |
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SWERB Data |
2x/ every week |
Data until ~(at most) 7 days previous to today |
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Rankdates Table |
26 Jul 2021 |
Data Through Dec 2020 (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 |
13 Jul 2021 |
ALM/ADM through Dec 2020; ALF/ADF through Dec 2020 |
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Min_Maxs view |
26 Jul 2021 |
temp and rain data from Aug 1976 through Jun 2021 |
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Weatherhawk |
26 Jul 2021 |
WeatherHawk meterological data through Jun 2021 |
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Wounds and Pathologies |
27 Jul 2021 |
tables and views beginning with wp_ through Jun 2021 |
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Princeton babase_pending tables |
27 Jul 2021 |
neonatals, subgroups, intergroup_encounters, hybridity_rawmorpho, deaths, & corpse_info through Jun 2021 |
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Duke babase_pending tables |
Apr 2021 |
Predation_By, Predation_On, Human_Disturb through Mar 2021 |
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Genetic Inventory |
Updated constantly, as needed |
Tissues that are or ever have been at Duke and Notre Dame, Extracted DNA's/RNA's |
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Genetic Markers: msat_reactions |
Apr 2018 |
Reaction info through plate 415 |
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Genetic Markers: msat_results |
Apr 2018 |
Results data through plate 415 |
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Genetic Markers: Genotypes |
Dec 2018 |
All finalized microsatellite genotypes through end of year 2018 |
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Fecal: Prep |
Feb 2021 |
Fecal samples through 05 Jul 2018 |
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Fecal: Results |
Feb 2021 |
All hormones analyzed through Feb 2021 |
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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.