• http://www-user.slac.stanford.edu/rmount/dm-workshop-04/Final-Report-Work-Area/. Contains drafts and final reports from the 2004 Scientific Data Management Workshop series hosted by R. Mount at SLAC. While the findings document's primary objective is to justify a new program in Scientific Data Management (along with a leadership class data management/analysis facility to be hosted at SLAC), the findings document does an acceptable job explaining the data management (including analysis and understanding) challenges facing application sciences in 2004. The main conference website contains some additional information as well. The final version of the workshop report is located here: http://www-user.slac.stanford.edu/rmount/dm-workshop-04/Final-report.pdf .


• 2003 Workshop on Data Managmement for Molecular and Cell Biology. The rationale for this workshop is the observation that current data management systems are often not very well suited to support bioinformatics applications. For the past decade, the vast bulk of federal research and development funding for biological, genomic, genetic, and structural biological databases has gone into the tasks of database development, creation, curation, and maintenance, and have primarily employed conventional database technology rather than novel database technology targeted at bioinformatics applications. The result is that biological database developers are forced to write and maintain considerable amounts of ad hoc code, which may also be less efficient. This slows the development of biological databases, increases development and maintenance costs, and often limits the expressiveness of query facilities for end users. We believe that additional investments in the underlying database technology are required if bioinformatics data management is to be effectively supported in the 21st century. This workshop is intended to articulate such a research agenda.