title: Whither biological database research?
abstract: We consider how the landscape of biological databases may evolve in the future, and what research is needed to realize this evolution. We suggest today's dispersal of diverse resources will only increase as the number and size of those resources, driving the need for semantic interoperability even more strongly. Because the complexity of the questions biologists want answered automatically continues to rapidly escalate, we will need to draw upon high-performance computing resources such as the GRID to process complex queries. Finally, we still need data, and our ways of acquiring and curating data must improve by orders of magnitude.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65201, USA. toni@athe.cecs.missouri.edu
authors.forename: Toni
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kazic
authors.forename: Ed
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Coe
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Polacco
authors.forename: Chi-Ren
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Shyu
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology; D003628:Database Management Systems; D012106:Research