RE: Size estimates of current LS space

These may be helpful resources: 

The Nucleic Acids Research Public Links Directory 
See:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dop
t=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16845014&query_hl=6&itool=pubmed_docsum


And the Nucleic Acids 2006 Molecular Biology Database Collection 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?itool=abstractplus&db=pubm
ed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstractplus&list_uids=16381871

Karen Skinner, Ph.D. 
Deputy Director for Science and Technology Development 
Division of Basic Neuroscience and Behavior Research 
National Institute on Drug Abuse 
Room 4243
6001 Executive Boulevard 
Bethesda, Maryland 20892-9651 
301-435-0886 or 301-443-1887 
ks79x@nih.gov 


-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Neumann [mailto:eneumann@teranode.com] 
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 10:07 AM
To: public-semweb-lifesci hcls
Subject: Size estimates of current LS space



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)?

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)?


I think these would be quite useful for other W3C members to be aware
of, since some proposed mechanisms would require their global
indexing...

Eric

Received on Monday, 31 July 2006 22:36:03 UTC