Hi, My name is Inbal Paz and I'm a programmer at Prof. Yael Mandel-Gutfreund's lab located in the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology. We have recently developed a web-server called 'SFmap' for the mapping and prediction of splicing factors binding sites (http://sfmap.technion.ac.il/). The related paper was accepted by Nucleic Acids Res. and is currently under the final stages of review.
SFmap uses BLAT in order to determine the genomic coordinates of the input sequence we get from the user. We run BLAT using the BlatBot.pl script on the UCSC servers in order to get fast results, since our available hardware is not strong enough to run BLAT on whole genomes locally in a reasonable time. Yesterday we tried to run SFmap with a long list of input sequences (for QA purposes) and our web-server's IP was apparently blocked . This is the error message we got from the BLAT output: "There is an exceedingly high volume of traffic coming from your site (IP address 132.68.104.195) as of Mon Apr 26 03:06:05 2010 (California time). It looks like a web robot is launching queries quickly, and not even waiting for the results of one query to finish before launching another query. We cannot service requests from your IP address under these conditions. (code 844360)" We would be very happy to get the IP released again asap (if this is indeed the problem) and to get your advise on which is the best way to avoid similar problems in the future. Thanks a lot in advance, Inbal Inbal Paz Programmer and Webmaster Yael Mandel-Gutfreund's lab Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Tel: +972-4-8293701
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