ARCiB -- Accessible Retired Computers in Biology

无障碍生物退役计算机(ARCiB)项目将建立一个存档设施，以保存用于处理生物数据的以前但仍然非常有用的计算机软件版本。还有一个组件，用于维护特别重要但现在已经过时的硬件，作为新程序向后兼容性的试验台，以及关于这些现在低端系统的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，并通过将升级作为选择而不是要求来降低社区的长期成本。它将使对遗留数据的访问变得更容易，从而使本应丢失的数据得以保存。现有的网站已经非常受欢迎。该项目也得到了本科生的全程参与，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，这些学校和项目在新设备和软件方面的资金很少或断断续续。

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 There is also a component for maintaining particularly important, but now outdated, pieces of hardware to act as a testbed for backward compatibility of new programs and a source of information on the performance aspects of these now low-end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.