[BiO BB] Structural genomics and PDB growth?

Dan Bolser dmb at mrc-dunn.cam.ac.uk
Tue Aug 10 19:46:53 EDT 2004


On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Iddo Friedberg wrote:

>Hi Dan,
>
>For your first question:
>
>We published something in PSB'04
>
>http://helix-web.stanford.edu/psb04/bourne.pdf

Cheers.

>
>I don't know about definitive, but it is fairly exhaustive, based on
>data which was up-to-date for summer 2003.
>
>PDB will keep growing as long as crystallographers/NMR people have
>jobs and have families to feed. Future growth rate, as always, is
>estimated by extrapolation. However, come the technological
>breakthrough whcih will enable faster solutions for membrane
>proteins, the growth rate will probably increase :)

That is the thing, but is the rate of increase increasing?

>Cheers,
>
>Iddo
>
>
>
>--- Dan Bolser <dmb at mrc-dunn.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> 
>> Can anyone point me at definative literature for estimates of PDB
>> growth
>> and the impact of structural genomics?
>> 
>> What evidence do we have that the PDB will keep growing? What is
>> the best
>> current estimate of that growth rate?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Dan.
>> 
>> 
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