What happened with miRecords mirna database website ?

Question: What happened with miRecords mirna database website ?

4.5 years ago by

Norway

makaonte • 70 wrote:

What happened with miRecords mirna database website ? The webpage is not available and I used it's data as part of an analysis in my paper. Now the reviewer can't see the page and asks for an explanation.

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Sorry, I forgot to post the link. The miRecords was suppose to be available at http://miRecords.umn.edu/miRecords.

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modified 4.4 years ago by mickael.leclercq • 30 • written 4.5 years ago by makaonte • 70

Can you post a link so we can check?

ADD REPLY • link written 4.5 years ago by Neilfws ♦ 48k

4.5 years ago by

Daniel Swan ♦ 13k

Aberdeen, UK

Daniel Swan ♦ 13k wrote:

The persistence (or lack of) bioinformatics resources online has been analysed a number of times:

"On the persistence of supplementary resources in biomedical publications" http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/7/260

"A survey of the availability of primary bioinformatics web resources" http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1672022907600175

"404 not found: the stability and persistence of URLs published in MEDLINE" http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/20/5/668.abstract

"Persistence and Availability of Web Services in Computational Biology" http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0024914

"A Survey of the Availability of Primary Bioinformatics Web Resources" http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1672022907600175

And sadly you have fallen foul of a resource that has either moved (with no redirect), been deprecated, or the server in the server room has died, and the one person who knew how to maintain the resource left the lab 3 years ago.

Reliance on sources that you cannot download and archive yourself, or are hosted outside of institutional repositories, or specific data repositories such as Figshare is asking for trouble. You will probably need to alter the paper to reflect data from a similar resource or attempt to contact the authors of the original paper. Or share some of the URLs above with your reviewer.

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4.5 years ago by

Mary ♦ 11k

Boston MA area

Mary ♦ 11k wrote:

I have left a comment on the PubMed site, and invited the team to please comment. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18996891

ADD COMMENT • link written 4.5 years ago by Mary ♦ 11k

Thank you for doing that, I am not a member of Pubmed Commons. I send a email to the first author and to the last author.

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4.5 years ago by

Chris Evelo ♦ 9.9k

Maastricht, The Netherlands

Chris Evelo ♦ 9.9k wrote:

http://mirecords.umn.edu/miRecords/ works fine for me at this moment. It may just have been a hiccup.

ADD COMMENT • link written 4.5 years ago by Chris Evelo ♦ 9.9k

me too as of right now

ADD REPLY • link written 4.5 years ago by Neilfws ♦ 48k

It seems to be more than a hip-cup, because some months ago a reviewer of my paper could not access the site. But by now it is working again. Thanks

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4.4 years ago by

mickael.leclercq • 30

CHU de Quebec, bioinformatics laboraroty

mickael.leclercq • 30 wrote:

Since at least one week the original website is down again apparently...

I also really need to access their data!

After some research I have found a mirror ! http://c1.accurascience.com/miRecords/index.php

I sent an email to the corresponding author 4 days ago and also the first author but still no answers.

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