title: Comprehensive, comprehensible, distributed and intelligent databases: current status.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  It is only a matter of time until a user will see not many but one integrated database of information for molecular biology. Is this true? Is it a good thing? Why will it happen? Where are we now? What developments are fostering and what developments are impeding progress towards this end?
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  A list of WWW resources devoted to database issues in molecular biology is available at http://www.mips.biochem.mpg.de
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  frishman@mips.biochem.mpg.de
authors.affiliation: Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences of the German National Research Center for Environment and Health, Am Klopferspitz 18a, 82152 Martinsried, Germany. frishman@mips.biochem.mpg.de
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Frishman
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Heumann
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lesk
authors.forename: H W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Mewes
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology; D003628:Database Management Systems; D019992:Databases as Topic; D020407:Internet; D011786:Quality Control