Comprehensive, comprehensible, distributed and intelligent databases: current status

D Frishman; K Heumann; A Lesk; H W Mewes

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/14.7.551

Comprehensive, comprehensible, distributed and intelligent databases: current status

Bioinformatics. 1998;14(7):551-61. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/14.7.551.

Authors

D Frishman¹, K Heumann, A Lesk, H W Mewes

Affiliation

¹ Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences of the German National Research Center for Environment and Health, Am Klopferspitz 18a, 82152 Martinsried, Germany. frishman@mips.biochem.mpg.de

PMID: 9730920
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/14.7.551

Abstract

Motivation: It is only a matter of time until a user will see not many but one integrated database of information for molecular biology. Is this true? Is it a good thing? Why will it happen? Where are we now? What developments are fostering and what developments are impeding progress towards this end?

Supplementary information: A list of WWW resources devoted to database issues in molecular biology is available at http://www.mips.biochem.mpg.de

Contact: frishman@mips.biochem.mpg.de

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Computational Biology*
Database Management Systems
Databases as Topic*
Internet
Quality Control