Building Web Resources for Natural Scientists

Natural scientists increasingly rely on web-based information resources. The speed with which these data will be brought to the scientist's desktop in the near future, however, makes only too clear that automated support for efficient and effective use is in its infancy. In fact, most data are still processed by a combination of manual work and ad hoc programming. We propose to alleviate some of the problems by means of a research environment: a web site with highly graphical user interface that allows transparent access to resources and performs a certain degree of fusion of the information found.