Myriads of protein families, and still counting

Victor Kunin¹, Ildefonso Cases¹, Anton J Enright¹, Victor de Lorenzo¹^,2 and Christos A Ouzounis¹

¹Addresses: Computational Genomics Group, The European Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL Cambridge Outstation, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK

²Centro Nacional de Biotecnología CSIC, Campus de Cantoblanco 28049 Madrid, Spain

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Genome Biology 2003, 4:401doi:10.1186/gb-2003-4-2-401


Published:	28 January 2003

Subject areas: Bioinformatics, Genome studies

Abstract

From the historical record of genome sequencing, we show that the rate of discovery of new families has remained constant over time, indicating that our knowledge of sequence space is far from complete.