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either during the current Workbench session or upon resuming the session at a later<br />

time.<br />

24 1<br />

Much of the display on the Workbench is tailored to the program outputs of the<br />

specific tools. For instance, using an appropriate MIME-type for RASMOL, three<br />

dimensional structures of macromolecules can be displayed on a browser<br />

window(Vide Fig. 4).<br />

Discussion<br />

The Biology Workbench is a WWW-based analysis environment which brings highpowered<br />

computation into an experimental laboratory. The seamless integration of<br />

remote database <strong>and</strong> computational biology tools forms creates a virtual computer,<br />

with WWW browsers as the GUI interface. The platform independent access to tools<br />

creates an environment in which all biologists can utilize programs which previously<br />

were found only in large laboratories with heavy bioinformatics investments.<br />

The future of the Biology Workbench is targeted towards genomics. Several<br />

aspects of genome informatics including automated analysis <strong>and</strong> annotation, newer<br />

tools for protein <strong>and</strong> gene clustering, <strong>and</strong> tools for fast comparisons across genomes<br />

are all under development.<br />

Acknowledgments<br />

This work was supported in part by NSF grant ASC 89-02829 <strong>and</strong> by grants from<br />

MDL Informatics Corporation. All the computational resources for the public<br />

version of the Biology Workbench are provided by NCSA.<br />

APPENDIX A<br />

List of All Currently Available Biological <strong>Databases</strong> in The Biology Workbench<br />

Nucleic Acid <strong>Databases</strong><br />

GenBank - NCBI Nucleic Acid Sequence Database (Protein also)<br />

GenBankNew - NCBI Nucleic Acid Sequence Database (Protein also)<br />

Protein <strong>Databases</strong><br />

BLOCKS - Aligned Ungapped Highly Conserved Protein Segments<br />

NRL3D - Sequence <strong>and</strong> Annotation Information Taken From The PDB<br />

PDBFINDER - Protein Sequences From The PDB<br />

PIR - The Protein Information Resource<br />

SWISSPROT - Protein Sequences From Geneva And EMBL<br />

SWISSNEW - Protein Sequences From Geneva And EMBL

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