All users would be required to register in a database, so market participants could make informed decisions about when and where to deploy their systems.

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Anadir has set up a database to register the DNA of parents searching for their children.

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That first week several colleagues and I created an online database to register mental and behavioral health clinicians who wanted to volunteer for disaster relief work.

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The tax would be used to pay for a database that would monitor and register gun sales.

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Police spokesman Joe Baeza says they introduced a scheme whereby motorists could register their car number plates into a police database and this empowered patrol cars to stop these cars if they were spotted late at night, to verify the owners.

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"Nobody has a real handle on the extent of the problem, " says Anna Kisluk, director of the Art Loss Register in New York, which maintains an international database of stolen art.

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The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is an open-access, online database created in 2007 with the participation of 146 institutions in 32 countries.

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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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Many auction houses and dealers have their catalogs checked by the London-based Art Loss Register, which they partly own and which runs the world's largest private stolen- artwork database.

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