[BiO BB] Structural genomics and PDB growth?

[Iddo Friedberg]

--- Dan Bolser <dmb at mrc-dunn.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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?


I'm not sure by what you mean by "an increasing rate of increase".
PDB growth is exponential. 

./I

> 
> >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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Iddo Friedberg                   
The Burnham Institute
10901 N. Torrey Pines Rd.
La Jolla, CA, 92037
USA 
T: (858) 646 3100 x3516
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