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From: MiMiR – an integrated platform for microarray data sharing, mining and analysis

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The three-tier hardware and software architecture of MiMiR comprises a storage layer, an application services layer and an access/user interface layer (delimited by dashed lines). The MiMiR backend database is physically protected by two firewalls (FW) and is only accessible through the middle tier application servers (MDSA) which act as trusted middleware service and security gateway. The demilitarised zone (DMZ) sits between the two firewalls. All requests and retrieval of data to and from the web servers in the access layer are done in an encrypted format (marked 'https' with shaded arrows). MiMiR staff access internal tools for experimental annotation (GUI) using a less secure data transmission.

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