[Gusdev-rad-issues] Re: Questions (MIKE please note)

[Michael S. <msa...@pc...>]

Hi Urska,

To address your first issue:  As Elisabetta said, RAD is a subcomponent 
of GUS, which requires a Unix-like operating system to run.  It's known 
to work with Linux (which we use and recommend), but also Mac OS X and 
Solaris (both are less tested...).  Oracle need not be on the same 
system as the GUS application components (and I wouldn't recommend it), 
and thus Oracle could be on Linux, Mac OS X, etc (although again, we 
recommend Linux where it has the most testing).

To address your third issue:  This is an issue you'll have to address 
with Oracle.  My understanding is that Oracle provides *evaluation* 
copies available for download on their website, but they are *not* free 
for non-commercial use.  Here at Penn, we a have a site-license for 
Oracle, which I'm sure the University pays for.  Ultimately, only Oracle 
can answer licensing questions about Oracle software.

If you don't have access to Oracle, and cost is an issue, you may be 
interested in the PostgreSQL compatible version of GUS, which should be 
released in the coming months.

Thanks,

Mike


Elisabetta Manduchi wrote:
> 
> Hi Urska,
> thanks for your interest in RAD.
> RAD is part of GUS which here is installed on Linux. But our dba Mike 
> Saffitz, here cc-ed, is the best person to respond to your questions 
> regarding installation and Oracle.
> In GUS we have a system of attaching to each individual row in each 
> table information on user, group, project and read/write permissions, so 
> one could have fine control up to row-by-row if desired.
> In our instance we typically apply control on a larger level, i.e. at 
> the study level (RAD3.Study) and we have a web interface that queries 
> RADs and shows publicly only those studies whose other_read is set to 1 
> (and everything relative to that study, from hybs info to final 
> quantified results is visible) and which shows the private studies only 
> upon logging in. Again, this is how we use our instance of the system, 
> but the system is flexible enough to allow control as fine as desired.
> Elisabetta
> P.S. We have a sourcefourge mailing list for RAD, which I have cc-ed in 
> my reply. You might want to subscribe to it and it would be helpful if 
> for any RAD related question you could email to that list.
> 
> ---
> 
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Urska Cvek wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have discovered your RAD database of microarray and non-microarray 
>> experiments. I would like to use it, but I have been trying to figure 
>> out some answers as to how exactly this works:
>>
>> - RAD is implemented on top of GUS - where is GUS installed and where 
>> is RAD installed? Are they running of a single Linux/UNIX server, or 
>> are they installed on a Windows server?
>>
>> - I need to provide different levels of user access, for example, 
>> access to only public data to certain users, and access to all data 
>> for other users (like the administrators or investigators). Do you 
>> have that implemented as well?
>>
>> - My last question is wrt Oracle - I visited the Oracle web page and 
>> as it looks like I can download and install Oracle 9i for free. Am I 
>> correct (I am at an educational institution and this would be a 
>> non-commercial database) or do I have to have a different version of 
>> Oracle that is not free?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Urska Cvek
>> Assistant Professor
>> LSUS