Eric
strewth.
hmm....not sure, and on the grounds you should ask people who know if
you don't know, I just emailed Rolf Apweiler, Ewan Birney and Arek
Kasprzyk to see if they would hazard a guess for at least the public
databases.
I'll also ask our local proteomics and microarray people about their
local scale-ups.
on another note
We use LSIDs in Taverna and one workflow - say for a gene alert and
annotation protocol - will produce in the order of thousands of data
objects, all with an LSID :-) And we run the workflows over and over
and over again. If you labelled every microarray probe with an LSID your
gonna get 50K+ in one array......
Carole
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
