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Status of Babase Datasets

UPDATE

Duke is currently in the process of doing the 2006B update on the interact data and thus any affected data past 6-30-2006 is incomplete until we have finished and should not be used at this time.***

Dataset

Last Updated

Data Included

Group Membership and Life Events*

29 May 2007

Data through Dec 2006

Sexual Cycles**

29 May 2007

Data through Dec 2006

Interact Data***

7 May 2007

Data through June 2006

The ranks, dispersedates, rankdates, consortdates, and maturedates tables are updated by both Duke and Princeton and are not necessarily updated at such regular intervals as the information above. Their addition to the status table above is pending, but needs further discussion and clarification between the database managers and the powers that be.

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Programs

Generic Programs

Babase's Bespoke Programs

Documentation

The Babase System Technical Specifications

This document describes the data structures and capabilities of Babase. It does not describe which of these capabilities are in use, how the data is collected, or the procedures used by the Babase team members when collecting, storing, and maintaining the data.

This document is available in several forms.

As web content:

As plain text:

[https://papio.biology.duke.edu/babase_system.xml As XML]

The Babase Pocket Reference

A brief summary of Babase. A listing of the tables, views, and the ER diagrams that describe the overall structure of the database.

[https://papio.biology.duke.edu/pocket_reference.pdf The Babase Pocket Reference] is available as a PDF.

Entity Relationship Diagrams

[https://papio.biology.duke.edu/diagrams/ The Entity Relationship diagrams] are graphical representations of the database structure. They are available in various image formats.

Using Babase

Other Babase Documentation

Other Babase Technical Information

These links are primarly of interest to the Babase support staff.

Data Management Tasks

All Babase software and documentation is available to the public, presently licensed under the GNU [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#GPL GPL] version 2.0 or later. We have not yet gotten around to putting the source code on our website so please ask if you'd like a copy.

Wiki content based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. 0323553 and 0323596. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the wiki contributor(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.