We constructed a simulated dataset to mimic the expected growth of a protein sequence database into the future, to demonstrate CaBLASTP's ability to scale to large datasets.
Continuous growth of the database makes it a valuable source of drug information for healthcare professionals.
With the fast growth of image database, managing image contents is becoming an increasingly important part of the development of organizational memory information systems.
Since it is computationally intensive, it becomes more and more ine_ective with today's growth of sequence database sizes.
With the rapid growth of the database the definition of homogeneous metapopulations is now also feasible solely on the basis of the genetic data as exemplified for the whole dataset of YHRD, release 19 (August 2006).
This process will lead to growth of the database and accessibility of these important findings for the scientific community, enriching the field and enabling progress through data sharing.
Future growth of the database will be targeted primarily at large-scale projects such as the 'mouse genomes project' (http://www.sanger.ac.uk/resources/mouse/genomes/) as well as data sets that can increase the represented strain diversity.
With the rapid growth of the database of sequenced genomes, the information available for careful reconstruction of LUCA and other ancestral forms will progressively increase, and such reconstructions are expected to shed more light on the fundamental aspects of the evolutionary process.
Still, given the rapid growth of this database, on-line genetic information and the bitterness sometimes seen in divorce proceedings or other situations in which considerable sums of money or prestige are involved, it is not inconceivable that this could happen in the future.
In an attempt to offset the flattening growth of its flagship database, Oracle is building a third leg to its business, called application servers a booming market projected to grow more than tenfold to $26 billion by 2005.
High-throughput techniques for DNA sequencing have led to an exponential growth of biological databases.
