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 <[log in to unmask]>
>> *To:* [log in to unmask]
>> *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 <[log in to unmask]
>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> 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 <[log in to unmask]
>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
>> *To:* [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>> *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
>>
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