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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Developers<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In my group we have done local installations of the ensembl database in order to improve performance and also because we do not what to tax your servers with queries.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>However in the latest releases we have been having difficulties installing the tables in our internal database... especially the alleles table.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The latest 66 release we installed took 8 days to process the alleles table and I am sure that it should not take this long!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We have followed the instructions found here: <a href="http://www.ensembl.org/info/docs/webcode/install/ensembl-data.html">http://www.ensembl.org/info/docs/webcode/install/ensembl-data.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On this page: <a href="http://www.ensembl.org/info/docs/variation/database.html#db_load">http://www.ensembl.org/info/docs/variation/database.html#db_load</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>You indicated that the alleles table (for version 61) should take about 3 hours to process. Since the Alleles table for version 67 is more than double in size we would expect for it to take between 6 to 9 hours but never 8 days!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Can you tell me if we are missing something or give us some workaround in order to accelerate the process?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best regards<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Duarte Molha</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>