https://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Researchers from the United Kingdom hope that a new, publicly available database they have created will shrink, not grow, over time. That's because it is a compendium of the thousands of understudied proteins encoded by genes in the human genome, whose existence is known but whose functions are mostly not. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-unknome-database-human-genes.html Molecular & Computational biology Tue, 08 Aug 2023 14:00:01 EDT news610693858 Methane is not only a powerful greenhouse gas, but also a source of energy. Microorganisms therefore use it for their metabolism. They do so much more frequently and in more ways than was previously assumed, as revealed by a study now published in Nature Microbiology by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology and Jiao Tong University in Shanghai. https://phys.org/news/2019-03-key-players-methane.html Cell & Microbiology Mon, 04 Mar 2019 11:00:16 EST news470909581 There are many ways to slice and dice genomic data to identify a species of bacteria, or at least find its close relatives. But fast techniques to sequence genomes have flooded the public databases and in a biased fashion, containing lots of genomic data about some species and not enough about others, according to a Rice University computer scientist. https://phys.org/news/2018-10-growth-genomic-databases-affects-species.html Biotechnology Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:41:16 EDT news460111267 Researchers hoping to make the next breakthrough in renewable energy now have plenty of new avenues to explore – Harvard researchers today released a massive database of more than 2 million molecules that might be useful in the construction of solar cells that rely on organic compounds that might be useful in the construction of organic solar cells for the production of renewable energy. https://phys.org/news/2013-06-massive-database-molecules-solar-cells.html Materials Science Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:32:23 EDT news291303134 (PhysOrg.com) -- UConn scientists say the results could complicate disease identification in humans. https://phys.org/news/2011-02-contamination-quarter-genome-databases.html Biotechnology Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:57:00 EST news217234603 Two decades ago a renowned statistician described a computer data set of 1 billion bytes as "huge" and 10 trillion bytes as "ridiculous." https://phys.org/news/2009-05-ridiculous-size.html Computer Sciences Thu, 14 May 2009 15:37:47 EDT news161534202