Comprehensive, comprehensible, distributed and intelligent databases: current status.
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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
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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
Heumann
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Lesk
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Mewes
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D019295:Computational Biology; D003628:Database Management Systems; D019992:Databases as Topic; D020407:Internet; D011786:Quality Control