2014-05-15 9:53 GMT-03:00 Colin Nave <colin.n...@diamond.ac.uk>: > Of course exponential growth can’t go on forever – the hidden point behind > my question. >
A nice example from another biological database is Swissprot. It had an exponential-like growth until 2009, and now it's somewhat linear: http://web.expasy.org/docs/relnotes/relstat.html I didn't looked much into that, but I guess it's because the annotators (Swissprot is human curated) simply can't keep up with everything coming from all genome projects. The other Uniprot database, automatically annotated Trembl, is still growing in a exponential-like fashion: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/uniprot/TrEMBLstats
