• is the database that supports the ICoMM initiative.
• contains data and meta-data from projects performed under the aegis of ICoMM.
• supplies OBIS with any OBIS compliant data.
• contains environmental and laboratory meta-data associated with ICoMM and Keck
  tag sequences found in VAMPS.
  MICROBIS and VAMPS data are linked via the VAMPS PROJECT NAME and the dataset name

PEOPLE

People who have worked on the development of MICROBIS are:

• Phillip Neal - Designed, developed and programmed the original functional version of Microbis - September 2004 - present.
• Dr. David Patterson - Developed the original schema (see 'design documents') - September 2004.
• Sarah Bordenstein - Has researched and edited much of the legacy data.
• Dr. Anne Thessen , Ph.D. - Also has worked on the legacy data.
• Dr. Henry Boumann - Did most of the work compiling LIPID data.

SOFTWARE

MICROBIS is a LAMP/AJAX project. That is, Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP, and lot's of
client-side javascript are used in developing this site.

• Linux
• APACHE
• MySQL
• PHP

MICROBIS is based on MySQL and PHP.
However, we are trying to implement an 'AJAX' type interface whenever possible
to keep response time and html programming to a minimum.

Due to the use of 'AJAX' type functions, these pages are best viewed
with the browsers FIREFOX for the PC or SAFARI for MAC OSX.