Database management for life sciences research

The life sciences provide a rich application domain for data management research, with a broad diversity of problems that can make a significant difference to progress in life sciences research. This article is an extract from the Report of the NSF Workshop on Data Management for Molecular and Cell Biology, edited by H. V. Jagadish and Frank Olken. The workshop was held at the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, Feb. 2-3, 2003.