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• Software and Databases—Nat Goodman
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2:00 p.m.
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Impediments to Adoption of Collaboration Technology—Lee Sproull
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• Perceived value of technology to the molecular biology community
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• User readiness and acceptance of the technology
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• Training for computational biologists
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• Lack of institutional and information infrastructure
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• Lack of critical mass of on-line materials
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• Lack of financial and institutional support for large projects
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3:00 p.m.
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Brainstorming
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• How might collaboration aid molecular biology and molecular biologists?
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• What existing problems in molecular biology might collaboratories solve or ameliorate?
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• Given sufficient funding, what would you want to build?
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• Which communities are the most likely to be initial candidates for collaboratories?
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• How will these collaboratories benefit the scientists who use them?
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5:00 p.m.
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Reception
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6:00 p.m.
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Dinner
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Friday, March 13, 1992
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9:00 a.m.
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Welcome and Statement of Purpose for Day Two—Bill Wulf Recap of Brainstorming Session—Alastair Cameron and Bruce Schatz
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9:30 a.m.
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How do we get there from here?
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• What must be done to realize collaboratories in molecular biology in the near term?
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• What specific proposals might be made?
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• What tools do molecular biologists use that could be shared with scientists of other disciplines?
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• How can the needs of molecular biologists be leveraged with the needs of other scientists to establish collaboratories? What other scientific communities might be targeted?
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10:45 a.m.
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Break
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11:00 a.m.
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What are the unsolved problems?
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• What will they keep us from achieving?
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• What must be done in the long term to address these problems?
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12:30 p.m.
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Working Lunch
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1:30 p.m.
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Conclusions and Report Planning
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2:30 p.m.
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Summary and Adjourn
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