The Molecular Biology Database Collection: an online compilation of relevant database resources

The Molecular Biology Database Collection represents an effort geared at making molecular biology database resources more accessible to biologists. This online resource, available at http://www.oup.co.uk/nar/ Volume_28/Issue_01/html/gkd115_gml.html, is intended to serve as a searchable, up-to-date, centralized jumping-off point to individual Web sites. An emphasis has also been placed on including databases where new value is added to the underlying data by virtue of curation, new data connections, or other innovative approaches. With systematic sequencing efforts on the human and other model organisms in full swing, a tremendous flood of sequence data is being produced at breakneck speed. Considering the Human Genome Project alone, it is currently estimated that over 2 million bases are deposited into GenBank each day. This growth will only accelerate in the future, given the new goal of having a working draft covering 90% of the genome by the spring of 2000 and the complete sequence...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2000
• Where: NAR
• Authors: Andreas D. Baxevanis
• Keywords: Molecular Biology Database, NAR 2000, Sequencing Efforts, Systematic Sequencing Efforts