Bioinformatics represents an integral part of modern molecular biology!

Current Content of the EMBL Nucleotide Database:

• in total 163,656,234 entries (163 million!)
• comprising 283,748,816,763 nucleotides (283 billion!)

(Release 101 from August 2009)

Source: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Databases

Progress in Genome Analysis:

Current status as of October 2009:

• 1,127 published complete genomes (>80% of them are bacterial!)
• 3,434 ongoing sequencing projects!

Source: http://www.genomesonline.org

Metagenomics outcompetes Moore's law!

Metagenomics sprang from advances in sequencing technology, and continued improvements are providing data in quantities unimaginable a few years ago. But without concerted efforts, the amount of data will quickly outpace the ability of scientists to analyze it.

For the full text have a look at Editorial in Nature Methods from September 2009

• (Meta)Genome Analysis
• rRNA Probe Design
• ARB/SILVA
• Training