Biomolecular Data

Part 1 The emergence of biomolecular data management: data proliferation - a challenge for science and for CODATA, A.E.Busard; how much sequence data the databanks will be processing in the near future, C.Burks; CODATA helps the development of sequence databases, B.Keil; the structure of nucleotide sequence databases, G.N.Cameron; hte National Library of Medicine, D.A.B.Lindberg; a method for the rapid and accurate deposition of nucleic acid data in an acceptably annotated form, R.T.Walker. Part 2 Managing biomolecular data: compilation of tRNA sequences and sequences of tRNA genes, M.Sprinzl; problems in maintaining a protein sequence database, Y.Seto et al; collection and standardization of crystal structure data by the protein data bank, T.F.Koetzle et al; quality control for a rapidly changing database, W.C.Barker et al; the database crisis - problems and solutions, efforts of an emerging Japanese database, A.Tsugita; the human gene mapping library, R.L.Miller; factual databases in basic research, R.J.Roberts; the Berlin RNA database - problems and solutions, J.Wolters and V.Erdmann. Part 3 Using biochemical data: the problem with GENBANK, E.A.Kabat; some perspective of a database user, R.M.Stephens; why industrial scientists are interested in the future development of sequence databases, J.L.Modelevsky; availability of nucleic acid sequences data in Poland, J.Augustyniack; international protein and peptide database, B.Wittman-Liebold; IRIS - integrated RNA information for systematics, H.Hori and Y.Saton; expert system simulations as active learning environments, D.L.Brutlag; integrated access to sequence and structural data - principles of design of comprehensive databases for molecular biology, A.Lesk; searching for codes in the sequences, E.N.Trifonov; semantic and syntactic patterns in the genetic language, T.F.Smith; databases - what's there and what's needed, M.Kanehisa. Part 4 Future trends in the management of biomolecular data: toward global data interfacing, D.R.Masys; linking sequence databases to the current scientific literature, D.A.Benson; global interfacing of people, places, data and knowledge - calm seas and prosperous voyage?, M.I.Krichevsky; global data exchange on compact disk read-only memory, F.R.Blattner; BIONET - an NIH computer resource for molecular biology, D.L.Brutlag and D.Kristofferson; the database as a communication medium, J.W.Fickett; some ideas towards an electronic information centre for biotechnology, A.Fletcher; computer education in biochemistry, chemistry and molecular biology, V.Erdmann et al; sources of data in the GENBANK database, C.Burks; to publish or not to publish DNA sequences, R.D.Wells; to publish or not to publish, P.Kahn and L.Philipson.