<p>This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p> <p>We report from the second ESF Programme on Functional Genomics workshop on
Data Integration, which covered topics including the status of biological pathways
databases in existing consortia; pathways as part of bioinformatics infrastructures;
design, creation and formalization of biological pathways databases; generating
and supporting pathway data and interoperability of databases with other external
databases and standards. Key issues emerging from the discussions were the need for
continued funding to cover maintenance and curation of databases, the importance
of quality control of the data in these resources, and efforts to facilitate the exchange
of data and to ensure the interoperability of databases.</p>
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Comp Funct Genomics. 2004 Mar; 5(2):148-155