title: Myriads of protein families, and still counting.
abstract: From the historical record of genome sequencing, we show that the rate of discovery of new families has remained constant over time, indicating that our knowledge of sequence space is far from complete.
authors.affiliation: Computational Genomics Group, The European Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL Cambridge Outstation, Cambridge, UK.
authors.forename: Victor
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kunin
authors.forename: Ildefonso
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Cases
authors.forename: Anton J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Enright
authors.forename: Victor
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: de Lorenzo
authors.forename: Christos A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Ouzounis
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016678:Genome; D006801:Humans; D011506:Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins