Workshop on Computerization of Data Bases for Genetic Stock Collections; Toronto, Canada; August 25, 1988

遗传储备中心是不可或缺的储存库， 实验室常用的微生物。 这些中心促进 现代遗传学、分类学和生物技术研究 提供遗传上确定的菌株和物种， 提供一套标准化的活体实验室模型供使用 在基础研究和应用研究中。 在许多情况下，股票 中心还保存了大量关于 他们分发的生物，包括基因图谱，标准化 等位基因名称，相关可用性信息 生物，以及研究的综合书目 关于有机体的出版物 例如，被引用最多的 生物学出版物，描述了基因图谱的 细菌土方ichi大肠杆菌，是由主任写的E。 耶鲁大学的芭芭拉·巴赫曼博士 大学 数据的规模和广度不断增长， 库存中心已经开始要求计算机用于 跟踪他们。 因此，关于这一专题的讲习班 “遗传库存中心数据库的计算机化”将是 1988年8月25日，作为第十六届国际 遗传学大会。 研讨会的主要目的是 了解库存中心的数据库需求，提供论坛 交流数据库的信息， 在不同的库存中心开发，并促进 硬件和软件设计的最终决定， 网站. 参与者是根据他们的 维护和分配遗传资源的责任 具有遗传重要性的生物的特征种群， 他们的计算机科学背景 研讨会摘要 研究结果将被公布;这将具有重要意义， 库存中心经理，并将帮助NSF更合理地规划其 为当前和未来的数据库工作分配资金。

Genetic stock centers are indispensible repositories of commonly used laboratory organisms. These centers facilitate modern genetic, taxonomic and biotechnological research by making available genetically defined strains and species, thus providing a standardized set of living laboratory models for use in both basic and applied research. In many cases, the stock centers also maintain considerable amounts of data about the organisms they distribute, including genetic maps, standardized allele designations, information on availability of related organisms, and comprehensive bibliographies of research publications on the organisms. For example, the most-cited biological publication, describing the genetic map of the bacterium Escherichi coli, was written by the Director of the E. coli genetic stock center, Dr. Barbara Bachmann of Yale University. The growing magnitude and breadth of data maintained at stock centers have begun to mandate that computers be used to keep track of them. Consequently, a workshop on the topic "Computerization of Data Bases for Genetic Stock Centers" will be held on August 25, 1988, as part of the sixteenth International Congress of Genetics. The main aims of the workshop are to discern the databasing needs of stock centers, to provide a forum for the exchange of information on databases that have already been developed at various stock centers, and to facilitate ultimate decisions on hardware and design of software for such sites. Participants have been selected based on their responsibilities for maintenance and distribution of genetically characterized stocks of genetically important organisms and for their computer science backgrounds. A summary of the workshop's findings will be published; it will have great importance for stock center managers and will help NSF plan more rationally its allocation of funds to current and future databasing efforts.