Hi James, I am surprised the PDB contained any data at all at that time - wouldn't people only submit their models but not the data at that time? ;-)
249GB and even the compressed 249GB data are not a 'tiny' space, as you actually point out. At 'those days' I had three operating systems installed on my 400MB disk. Rather we are used to larger disks nowadays, but most of the time that's only filled with noise. I just took an arbitrary data set covering 21GB disk space, reduced to 8.6MB hkl-data - that's only 0.04% non-noise ;-) Best, Tim On 05/14/2014 05:18 PM, James Holton wrote: > > I think 249 GB is uncompressed. My local copy of the PDB only takes up 20 > GB, > or one Blu-Ray. > > I can remember a time when the whole of the PDB fit onto a single CD-ROM. > The > PDB booth at the ACA meeting would hand them out for free! That was > impressive > to me because CD-R disks were really expensive (to an undergraduate like me > anyway), and I had to figure out how to do "multi-session" writes so I could > back up my whole hard drive 2 or 3 times before I filled one up. And, of > course, I had to take out my hard drive and go over to that really wealthy > lab > that had a "CD writer" to do that. Each write took about an hour, and didn't > always work. Ah, those were the days. > > But yes, it is impressive how so much effort by so many people over so many > years can be compressed into such a tiny space. "Is it not a strange fate > that > we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing?" > > -James Holton > MAD Scientist > > > > On 5/14/2014 7:15 AM, MARTYN SYMMONS wrote: >> I reckon it's two box sets of 25 discs each - am I calculating that wrong? >> Maybe room for a 'making of' feature.... >> >> ;) >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> *From:* Jon Agirre <[email protected]> >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Sent:* Wednesday, 14 May 2014, 14:28 >> *Subject:* Re: [ccp4bb] PDB passes 100,000 structure milestone >> >> 249GB? That's a whole lot of DVDs! >> >> >> On 14 May 2014 14:08, MARTYN SYMMONS <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Although the line boasting that the PDB adds up to 'more than 249 GBbytes >> (sic) of storage' was obviously written by someone from a pre i-tunes >> generation.... >> http://www.wwpdb.org/news/news_2014.html#13-May-2014 >> ;) >> >> -M. >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> *From:* mesters <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> *Sent:* Wednesday, 14 May 2014, 13:41 >> *Subject:* Re: [ccp4bb] PDB passes 100,000 structure milestone >> >> Amazing, great! >> >> And, which structure ended up as number 100.000? >> >> - J. - >> >> >> Am 14.05.14 10:42, schrieb battle: >>> The Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) organization is proud to >>> announce >>> that the Protein Data Bank archive now contains more than 100,000 >>> entries. >>> >>> Established in 1971, this central, public archive of >>> experimentally-determined protein and nucleic acid structures has >>> reached >>> a critical milestone thanks to the efforts of structural biologists >>> throughout the world. >>> >>> Read the full story at: >>> http://www.wwpdb.org/news/news_2014.html#13-May-2014 >>> >>> -- >>> Gary Battle >>> on behalf on the wwPDB >> >> >> -- >> Dr.Jeroen R. 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