After more than 30 years in one form or another, the RDP website is no more. The server has died, the code is old, funding is exhausted, staff have retired or moved on. Developed in the pyrosequencing era, the pipeline tools are overwhelmed by today’s larger Illumina data sets.
The website is survived by the stand-alone version of the RDP Classifier available on Sourceforge and the command line version of RDP Tools. The later can be installed following the instructions on this website and here. Knowing there are still users of FunGene, we were hoping to find someone to host it, but so far with no takers. We have a nearly functional Amazon machine image of FunGene that could be used to build new gene models for Xander. If you are interested in using it or taking over FunGene, please leave a comment or email me (see the contact page).
