Meeting on The Interconnection of Molecular Biology Databases

9223350个卡尔普分子生物学数据库在相互连接时将比目前孤立状态下对生物医学研究人员有更大的用处。会议的主要影响将是促进在整合异质数据库领域工作的计算机科学家和开发和使用分子生物学数据库的生物信息学研究人员之间的跨学科研究项目。参加研讨会的计算机科学家正在学习现有数据库的特性以及生物信息学研究人员对互联的要求。参加研讨会的生物信息学研究人员将接触到计算机科学研究人员开发的互联战略和技术。研讨会的第二个重点是进行一项实验，为几个现有的分子生物学数据库开发一个全球、多数据库模式。全局模式是实现这些数据库互连的第一步，对于了解和评估用于管理数据库模式的现有工具来说，这是一项有价值的练习。最后一份报告将总结讲习班陈述和多数据库模式实验的结果，并将分发给数据库和生物信息学社区的成员。***

9223350 Karp Molecular biology databases will be of greater utility to biomedical researchers when interconnected than in their current isolated state. The primary impact of the meeting will be to stimulate interdisciplinary research projects between computer scientists who work in the area of integrating heterogeneous databases, and bioinformatics researchers who develop and use molecular biology databases. Computer scientists at the workshop are learning about the properties of existing databases and the requirements that bioinformatics researchers will have for interconnection. Bioinformatics researchers at the workshop are being exposed to strategies and technologies for interconnection that have been developed by computer science researchers. A second focus of the workshop is to conduct an experiment toward the development of a global, multi-database schema for several existing molecular biology databases. A global schema is a first step toward interconnecting these databases, and is a valuable exercise for learning about and evaluating existing tools for the management of database schemas. A final report will summarize the results of the workshop presentations and multidatabase schema experiment, and will be distributed to members of the database and bioinformatics communities. ***