National Collaboratories -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- RECOMMENDATIONS -- 1 Science, Collaboration, and Information Technology -- INCREASE IN VOLUME OF INFORMATION AND COMPLEXITY -- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR RESEARCH AND COLLABORATION -- THE COLLABORATORY CONCEPT -- THIS STUDY -- 2 Building Collaboratories for Oceanography -- OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH -- Field Experimentation -- Modeling -- COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN OCEANOGRAPHY -- International Initiatives -- World Ocean Circulation Experiment -- Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere Program -- Additional Interdisciplinary Programs -- USING COLLABORATORY COMPONENTS TO FACILITATE RESEARCH -- Improving Access to Colleagues -- Electronic Communication -- Educational Workshops -- Improving Access to Data -- Providing Tools for Collaboration in Oceanography -- TOGA Data Catalog -- Globe Data Catalog -- Tour Tool -- Cruise Planning Tool -- Ontology Tool -- ATTRIBUTES OF A USEFUL COLLABORATORY FOR OCEANOGRAPHY -- Interoperability -- Transparency -- Customizability -- Integrity and Extensibility -- 3 Building Collaboratories in Space Physics -- SPACE PHYSICS RESEARCH -- Data Collection and Instrumentation -- Methods and Technologies for Data Analysis -- EXAMPLES OF COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS IN SPACE PHYSICS RESEARCH -- Initial and Ongoing Collaborative Programs -- Space Physics Analysis Network -- Coordinated Data Analysis Workshops -- Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Explorer/Charge Composition Explorer -- Sondre Stromfjord Observatory Testbed -- Solar-Terrestrial Energy Program -- Geospace Environment Modeling Program -- International Solar-Terrestrial Physics Program -- Space Physics Data System: a Collaboratory of One -- NEW OPPORTUNITIES PROVIDED BY A COLLABORATORY FOR SPACE PHYSICS -- COMPONENTS OF A COLLABORATORY INFRASTRUCTURE.

4 Building Collaboratories for Molecular Biology -- GENOME RESEARCH IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY -- TRENDS IN TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT COLLABORATIVE GENOME RESEARCH -- CURRENT DATABASE SYSTEMS -- MedLine -- GenBank -- Genome Data Base -- FUTURE INFORMATION SYSTEMS-TOWARD A WORKING COLLABORATORY -- Basic Components and Research Prototypes -- Remote Analysis Servers-Blast -- Interconnecting Archival Databases-Entrez -- Community Information Systems -- Basic Elements and Capabilities -- A Model Collaboratory-Worm Community System -- OPPORTUNITIES TO ENHANCE RESEARCH -- 5 Building and Using Collaboratories -- IDENTIFYING BASIC CAPABILITIES A COLLABORATORY SHOULD SUPPORT -- PROVIDING BASIC CAPABILITIES-TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- Interconnecting Data Sources -- Sharing and Applying Programs -- Controlling Remote Instruments -- Supporting User Interaction -- Achieving Transparency -- ACKNOWLEDGING CONTEXT-SOCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL CONSIDERATIONS -- Issues for Individual Scientists -- Costs for Individual Scientists of Using Computer-based Collaboration Technology -- Education and Training -- User-Developer Partnerships -- Issues for Individual Institutions -- Providing Local Infrastructure Support -- Managing the Results of Increased Interaction -- ISSUES IN FUNDING FOR COLLABORATORY INFRASTRUCTURE -- MAKING A START -- 6 Providing for a National Collaboratory Program -- PROVIDE FOR TWO NATIONAL DEMONSTRATIONS OF EACH COLLABORATORY TESTBED. -- INITIATE MULTIPLE AND COMPLEMENTARY ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THE HUMAN RESOURCES NEEDED TO CARRY OUT THE COLLABORATORY PROGRAM… -- References -- Appendixes -- Appendix A Elements of a Functional Collaboratory -- Appendix B Workshop Programs and Participants -- MOLECULAR BIOLOGY WORKSHOP -- Program -- Participants -- OCEANOGRAPHY WORKSHOP -- Program -- Participants -- SPACE PHYSICS WORKSHOP -- Program -- Participants.

Appendix C Rules Governing Access to and Use of the CDAW-9 Database -- Appendix D Training Computational and Mathematical Biologists -- INTRODUCTION -- PROFILES OF COMPUTATIONAL AND MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGISTS -- Computer Scientists -- Biologists -- Mathematicians -- SUMMARY OF THE CURRENT STATUS -- ENCOURAGING INTERACTIONS -- Senior Researchers (Tenured and Above) -- Pretenure -- Postdoctoral -- Graduate Students -- Undergraduate -- Precollege -- Summary Principles -- FUNDAMENTAL EDUCATIONAL PRINCIPLES -- Undergraduate Education -- General Course Content -- Mathematics and Computer Science Majors -- Biological Sciences -- Consequences -- ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS -- Graduate Education -- WOMEN AND OTHER UNDER-REPRESENTED GROUPS.