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Zuerich, Chemie-Bibliothek, CH-8092,
Zuerich, Switzerland.
Traditionally, libraries have acquired information
sources and made them available to users
on their premises. This "usage paradigm" still
holds for printed sources, but it was challenged
for the first time by the advent of online searching
in public databases about two decades ago.
Commercially available in-house chemistry
databases for microcomputer systems and on
CD-ROM are about to change it in an even more
significant way. These sources on the one
hand share electronic format and concomitant
search facilities with public databases, albeit at
present with better user interfaces. On the
other hand, they share with printed sources
their physical location "in-house" and
budgetability - information at fixed cost independent
of usage. Consequences of these developments
towards "electronic libraries" for
organization, access and user training will be
discussed, based on experience in an academic
chemistry department, and in particular with inhouse
systems for chemical reactions (MDL's
REACCS) and compounds (Beilstein's XFIRE).
4:35 PM
41. PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER - THE CHEMICAL
INFORMATION WORKSTATION.
Charles E. Gragg, Burroughs Wellcome
Co., Regulatory and Scientific Information
Department, Research Triangle Park, NC
27709-4498.
"Why would you want everything? Where
would you put it?" - Steven Wright. Access to
information is more important than ownership of
information. Owning an entire series of volumes,
also means owning the dust on them,
and the building housing them. Rapid access
to chemical information from teletypes, simple
terminals, complex workstations, minicomputers,
mainframes, and supercomputers is possible,
but decisions must be made by managers who
spend money and time finding the right match
of software, hardware and networks to please
the hardest online searcher, and the strictest
manuscript editor. Not everyone deserves a
complex workstation on his desk. Tailoring an
information service to the lowest common denominator,
the teletype, went out with the full
height hard drive. Local and online capabilities
must coexist synergistically on all successful
chemists' workstations. One man's humbleopinions are given, along with specific recommendations
for workstations that have pleased
many chemists, without breaking the budget.
44 CHEMICAL INFORMATION BULLETINWEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1995
8:05 AM
42. BIOLOGICAL DATA AND THE GLOBAL INFORMATION
INFRASTRUCTURE. Robert
J. Robbins, Johns Hopkins University, Laboratory
for Applied Bioinformatics, Baltimore,
MD 21205.
Biological data are a national resource whose
preservation, management, and publication are
of great importance. Achieving this, however,
is not without difficulty. In molecular biology,
technological and sociological changes solved
the crisis of data acquisition of the 1980's. Now
we face a new crisis - the crisis of data integration.
As more and more databases come on
line, populated with exponentially growing
amounts of information, we must find a way to
create and maintain appropriate links among related
elements in different data resources, or
much of the value of this national treasure will
be lost. Again, technical and sociological
changes are needed. technical solutions must
provide information resource interoperability, so
that stable links can be created. Social
changes are needed to create mechanisms for
populating those links with scientifically valid information.
This talk describes an emerging
technical architecture for data publishing within
the global information infrastructure.
8:30 AM
43. DISTRIBUTED DATABASES: A VIRTUAL
REALITY. Michael N. Liebman, Amoco
Technology Co., Bioinformatics Program,
F-2, Naperville, IL 60566.
Our research focuses on the development of
computational approaches for use in rational
protein engineering, biological pathway engineering
and drug design and risk assessment. The
algorithm development requires access to a
wide range of both public domain and proprietary
databases, comprising information about
molecular structure and function, physico-chemical
properties, biological organization and biochemical
and clinical effects. These databases
are typically compiled and maintained by "domain
experts", e.g., spectro-scopists, crystallographers,
clinicians, molecular biologists, rather
than within a comprehensive database architecture.
Our needs to integrate this diverse data
to enable modeling, simulation and analysis, has
required developing tools for data abstraction,representation and evaluation which emphasize
the functional" characteristics or object-oriented
nature of the data. Several models for incorpo
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