With an average redundancy of about 4x, 4 million block comparisons are scheduled for this phase.It is expected to finish this first phase by the end of March.

In a second phase, the initial dataset is being updated with newly published genomic data, adding 393,999 new protein sequences. Additionally, a fully curated reference dataset was added (SwissProt - 254,609 sequences), contributing to controlled annotation and data cross-referencing. Finally, an experimental dataset of about 3 million potential protein sequences derived from Open Reading Frames (ORFs) lacking a classical computational coding prediction was added, in an attempt to discover additional protein sequences or coding patterns. This second phase of the project is expected to take an additional 4 months of WorldGrid processing.