ARCiB -- Accessible Retired Computers in Biology

可利用的生物学退役计算机（ARCiB）项目将建立一个存档设施，保存以前但仍然非常有用的处理生物学数据的计算机软件版本。还有一个组件用于维护特别重要但现在已经过时的硬件部件，作为新程序向后兼容性的测试平台，以及这些现在低端系统性能方面的信息来源。该项目将为社区提供低成本的计算资源，并通过使升级成为一种选择而不是要求，从而降低社区的长期成本。它将使遗留数据的可访问性更容易，从而允许保存可能丢失的数据。现有的网站已经很受欢迎了。该项目也有本科生的参与，并将提供一种资源，将不成比例地帮助规模较小的学校和项目，为新设备和软件提供低或间歇性的资金。

The Accessible Retired Computers in Biology (ARCiB) project will build an archiving facility to preserve previous but still very useful versions of computer software for processing biological data. There is also a component for maintaining particularly important, but now outdated, pieces of hardware to act as a testbed for backward compatibility of new programs and a source of information on the performance aspects of these now low-end systems. The project will provide low cost computing resources to the community and reduce long-term costs for the community by making upgrades a choice not a requirement. It will make accessibility of legacy data easier, thus allowing preservation of data that would have been lost. The existing website is already very popular. The project also has involvement by undergrads throughout and will provide a resource that will disproportionately help smaller schools and programs with low or intermittent funding for new equipment and software.