Bioinformatics hardware requirements:

Server (for in house installations):
MetaCore/MetaDrug backend and Oracle database can be installed on the same server or separately.

  • Application Server (for MetaCore and MetaDrug) requirements:
    • 2 or more Intel or AMD Dual/Quad Core processors
    • 4GB or more RAM recommended (8GB or more if Oracle is running on the same server)
    • 100 GB or more of RAID space recommended
    • RedHat Enterprise Linux 4/5; SuSE 10; CentOS 4/5
    • X development package, libpng-devel, librsvg2, ghostscript installed
    • JDK 1.5.0
    • Oracle RDBMS 10.2 client tools: sqlplus, exp, imp, sqlldr
    • ChemTree 5.1 required for MetaDrug (included in the installation package)
  • Database server requirements:
    • Oracle RDBMS 10.2
    • 20GB or more for data tablespace and 20GB or more for indexes tablespace (or 40GB or more if the same tablespace is used for both data and indexes)
    • Accord Chemistry Cartridge 7 required for MetaDrug (included in the installation package)

Client (for web portal and in house installations):

  • PC or Mac with Internet Explorer 6.0, Mozilla Firefox 2.0, or Safari 3.0.4 or higher (PC with IE 6.0 or higher is required for MetaDrug)
  • Macromedia Flash Player 8 or higher
  • JRE 1.5.0
  • ChemDraw ActiveX/Plugin Net 9.0 Download Edition is required for MetaDrug
  • P4 equivalent CPU or better and 1 GB of RAM
  • Web portal access is protected by Verisign

MetaBase (for in house installations):

  • Oracle RDBMS 10.2
  • Networked Linux machine (RedHat Enterprise Linux 4/5; SuSE 10; CentOS 4/5) required to run installation and update packages