On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:19 AM, Carcharoth wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Andrew Gray <[email protected] 
> > wrote:
>
> I'm curious as well. I'm also curious as to why the user wants to
> extract this information, given that they should (going by their
> signature) have access to databases that already have this sort of
> information (the sort of databases that should be supplying the
> information in the Wikipedia infoboxes). There probably is a reason,
> but I can't immediately think of one.

Partly because Wikipedia has done an aggregation on the multiple data  
sources

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Rajarshi Guha        | NIH Chemical Genomics Center
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