Molecular Biology Databases - CNB - Protein Design Group

GROWING NUMBER OF DATA• Molecular biology data explosion in the “omics” era: genome sequencing,high-throughput proteomics, structural genomics, functional genomics7000000045000Nucleotide sequences (GenBank)60000000500000004000000030000000200000001000000001990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006Year4000035000300002500020000150001000050000Protein structures (PDB)• Bioinformatics: to uncover relevant biological information hidden in thehuge amount of biological data• All that information (primary data and derived data) is stored in databases