{{{#!gnuplot
set yrange [0:1400]
set xrange [0:16]
 
set data style boxes
set style fill solid
set boxwidth 0.4
set title "Growth of Biological Databases based on special issues of the NAR since '96"
set ylabel "number of databases"
set xlabel "year"
set grid ytics

set label "58" at 0.5, 100 front center
set label "1330" at 15.5, 1310 front center
set xtics ("1996" 0.5,"1997" 1.5,"1998" 2.5,"1999" 3.5,"2000" 4.5, "2001" 5.5,"2002" 6.5, "2003" 7.5,"2004" 8.5, "2005" 9.5,"2006" 10.5, "2007" 11.5,"2008" 12.5,"2009" 13.5, "2010" 14.5, "2011" 15.5, "2012" 16.5)
plot "-" using ($1+0.5):($2) with boxes title ""
0 56
1 62
2 97
3 201
4 226
5 280
6 337
7 386
8 548
9 719
10 858
11 967
12 1078
13 1170
14 1230
15 1330
16 1380
e
}}}