I'm glad it's friday, cause I can't really take any more of this week. Quack. Quack. Quack. We were supposed to release the new version of PRIDE to the general public this week. It didn't happen, and it's not looking good to happen next week either. The problem is that we're waiting for things that are out of our hands.
Pride is a repository of proteomics data. Groups can submit their experimental results for peer review and collaboration. We have tons of data right now but it's all private. The groups haven't published it to the scientific community at large so it's not available yet. The only source of public data we have hasn't given us the data files that will work in the new version, and only they can make them. Joy. We can't release without public data, it's ludicrous.
Other nasty item: Oracle is a pig. We did all our testing on local installations of mySQL on our laptops and it runs fast and smooth. We dump all the data on it and still, it's fine. We dump the same data on Oracle and now the database queries take roughly 60 times more time. What used to take 5 seconds now take 5 minutes. We need to talk to the DBA group to tune our database, but that's not going to happen overnight. We can deploy to a mySQL database on the EBI systems network, but we're waiting for them to greenlight it and give us access.
So, basically, we're waiting on people.
Quack.