The Zebrafish Science Monitor Vol 3(5)
ELECTRONIC ZEBRAFISHBy M. Westerfield, Institute of Neuroscience, 1254 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1254, USA
At the zebrafish Cold Spring Harbor meeting last year, a committee was selected to investigate establishment of an on-line database for zebrafish information. In November, the NSF announced a special program for biological databases and we applied.
The application was funded and design and implementation of the database system will begin in September. The prototype server will be set up in Eugene within a year and a second mirror site will be available in Boston the following year. We also hope to establish a site in Europe.
The database is intended to contain extensive information about zebrafish stocks, mutants, gene expression patterns, developmental and adult anatomy, and much more. A simple WWW interface will be available for submitting data and obtaining information over the Internet. More details of the proposed system can be obtained at the Eugene WWW site: <>.
Comments, questions, or suggestions can be directed by email to:
MONTE@UONEURO.UOREGON.EDU or
DRIEVER@HELIX.MGH.HARVARD.EDU.
Zebrafish Science Monitor Vol 3(5)
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