title: A service-oriented information sources database for the biological sciences.
abstract: Researchers in the biological sciences require access to a variety of information sources located in various places on different computer networks. In order to satisfy the information needs of a researcher, appropriate information sources must be selected and access to these information sources and the computing services supporting them must be provided in a way that does not distract the researcher from problems of real interest. At the University of Missouri-Columbia a service-oriented information sources database is being developed as a key component of a layered-model design of an intelligent system which will provide a research environment appropriate to the needs of researchers in the biological sciences.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Missouri-Columbia 65211, USA.
authors.forename: G K
authors.initials: GK
authors.lastname: Springer
authors.forename: T B
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Patrick
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003628:Database Management Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual; D007255:Information Services; D008432:Mathematical Computing; D008967:Molecular Biology / Q000379:methods*; D012107:Research Design; D012985:Software Design