The workshop session included the presentation of several specific servers, and some general discussion on possible developments. Important problems here are performance issues in high-performance display of graphics like gels and genomic maps. This implies that the server inherits a certain state rather than 'forgetting' the query. WWW as the surfing tool might be a solution to this.
Asynchronous processing is necessary and requires modifications to the normal type of HTML requests.
Achievements which make WWW useful for Biology The ability to display preannotated information makes large data sets available to people who do search only subsets of these collections. The stateful SRS server and its implementation issues were presented by Doelz and Etzold during the main conference. Hochstrasser et al.