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. 2018 Mar 22;6:ELIXIR-2051. Originally published 2017 Nov 27. [Version 2] doi: 10.12688/f1000research.12989.2

Table 2. Model 1, National funding.

Potential amounts from the top-10 UniProt user countries to sustain UniProt (orange columns) and the total core data resources (blue columns). Costs per country as a function of (1) usage, (2) Gross Domestic Product (GDP), (3) Net National Income (NNI) and (4) R&D domestic spending.

Country % of
usage
UniProt Total core data resources
Tax based
on usage
[k€]
0.00025
‰ of GDP
[k€]
0.00035
‰ of NNI
[k€]
0.014 ‰
of R&D
spending
[k€]
Tax based
on usage
[k€]
0.0024 ‰
of GDP
[k€]
0.003 ‰
of NNI
[k€]
0.13 ‰
of R&D
spending
[k€]
1 United States 26.64 5,862 4,163 4,538 5,693 53,288 39,965 42,548 52,862
2 China 9.72 2,138 4,476 2,634 4,349 19,438 42,966 24,697 40,384
3 United
Kingdom
6.87 1,512 639 675 533 13,741 6,139 6,332 4,950
4 Germany 6.10 1,342 923 964 1,285 12,201 8,857 9,036 11,929
5 India 5.47 1,204 1,838 2,353 875 10,944 17,648 22,060 8,126
6 Japan 4.35 958 1,130 1,187 2,064 8,706 10,852 11,131 19,170
7 France 3.26 717 641 669 712 6,515 6,153 6,270 6,610
8 Canada 2.69 592 374 389 321 5,385 3,595 3,644 2,985
9 Spain 2.27 500 373 386 236 4,546 3,583 3,617 2,192
10 Italy 1.96 431 524 543 337 3,916 5,034 5,089 3,130
14 Switzerland 1.49 328 120 122 162 2,986 1,149 1,142 1,500
Total 100 €20 million €190 million