Such projects will throw off huge amounts of data, and one aim of the institute is to develop the large-scale database management tools required to synthesize and use all that information.

FORBES: Totally Wired U.

There are by most estimates nearly 80 million dogs in this country alone, so to implement a dog DNA database on a large scale we are looking at a few billion dollars just to register dogs, and that is without administration, which would naturally be bloated and require a high-tech office complex inside the Beltway.

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Police forces in England and Wales have begun a large-scale operation to collect DNA samples from about 12, 000 serious offenders who are not on the national DNA database.

BBC: A DNA autoradiogram