- From: Eric Jain <Eric.Jain@isb-sib.ch>
- Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 04:18:00 +0200
- To: public-semweb-lifesci <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Eric Neumann wrote: > As per today's Telcon, does any person with genomics knowledge (that > includes you too Carole) have estimates for the following numbers: > > 1. How many bio-molecular and organism-anatomical-functional entities > and records (broad sense) are currently accessible through the web > (excluding LIMS entities, such as samples, for now)? In theory there are about 45M unique LSIDs in UniProt (27M of which represent non-UniProt resources). But note that few of these resources follow the rules (such as not changing), and none of these identifiers can at the moment be resolved with the official mechanism. > 2. Does this number grow substantially when it is allowed to include > every variant of protein, gene, etc. per species (i.e., not instances of > real molecules or organisms)? The number would increase substantially if you also counted obsolete versions (though only few databases have version numbers and support retrieval of obsolete versions).
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