Funding for site development

10th May 2022

Great news! A.Prof Tomer Ventura has directed some funding towards development of new features on CrustyBase, which means that we expect some new additions to the site over the next 6 months. Watch this space for updates!

Service outage tonight

10th March 2022

The host of CrustyBase, QRIScloud, has scheduled an outage this evening while firmware updates are applied. This means that CrustyBase will go offline some time after 17:00 AEST today for about 30 minutes. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. Grab a snack, call a friend and we'll be back online in no time!

Bug fix: Domain download error

10th December 2021

Last night we got an error report for a failed domain plot download. This was caused by erroneous blank domain records that had found their way into this dataset during import. The blank records have been removed and the dataset should now be functional again. This should not have affected any results taken from this dataset.
Dataset: Penaeus monodon [agIKWkLzq3IB49SMor6zgwxuo]

CrustyBase on new infrastructure

25th November 2021

You may not have noticed, but CrustyBase just moved to the new Nectar infrastructure on AARNet. What does this mean? Not much for our day-to-day users, but you may notice slight improvements to the general speed of the website due to faster disk IO and better processors.

Bug fix: BLAST parsing error

16th August 2021

CrustyBase reported a bug on the weekend which was raised while trying to render a very short BLAST alignment (8AA!). The issue has been fixed.