Because Quantitative Just Keeps Trumping Qualitative

In his latest post, Ricardo Vidal at My Biotech Life blogs about BioNumbers, billed as a "database of useful biological numbers." (Of course, this database would not be necessary if everyone remembered that the answer is always 42.)

BioNumbers is the brainchild of Ron Milo, Paul Jorgensen and Mike Springer at Harvard's systems bio department. The database, which currently coughs up data in Google Spreadsheet format, is intended to help scientists searching for numbers "like the total cell volume of an E. coli cell or the diffusion rate of a certain protein," Vidal writes.