A Yellow Pages of Molecular Biology Software

该奖项将支持为分子生物学软件和数据创建一个公开可用、易于使用、集中的目录。具体来说，它将支持支持休斯顿大学基因服务器的计算机和软件的升级，并扩展其数据库，以包括可供分子生物学家使用的软件和数据的最新信息。由此产生的数据库将为分子生物学软件和数据的信息提供一个网络可访问的、集中的来源。该数据库将支持多种访问机制（Mosaic、Gopher、FTP和电子邮件），以便即使是访问Internet受限的研究人员也可以使用其信息。分子生物学软件和数据的“黄页”的制作将涉及创建软件工具，这些软件工具可以自动扫描大量潜在的信息源，并检索相关信息的副本，以便纳入“黄页”数据库。

This award will support creation of a publicly available, easy to use, centralized directory for molecular biology software and data. Specifically it will support upgrade of the computers and software supporting the University of Houston Gene-Server and expansion of its database to include current information on software and data available for use by molecular biologists. The resulting database will provide a network-accessible, centralized source for information on molecular biology software and data. The database will support a variety of access mechanisms (Mosaic, Gopher, FTP and electronic mail), so that even researchers with restricted access to the Internet can use its information. Production of the "yellow pages" of molecular biology software and data will involve creation of software tools which automatically scan a large number of potential information sources and retrieve copies of relevant information for inclusion in the "yellow pages" database.