SHARING OF WORLDWIDE SPREAD KNOWLEDGE USING HYPERMEDIA FACILITIES ANDFAST COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS (MOSAIC AND WORLD-WIDE-WEB) - THE EXAMPLE OF EXPASY

The sharing of knowledge worldwide using hypermedia facilities and fas t communication protocols (i. e,, Mosaic and World Wide Web) provides a growth capacity with tremendous versatility and efficacy, The exampl e of ExPASy, a molecular biology server developed at the University Ho spital of Geneva, is striking. ExPASy provides hypermedia facilities t o browse through several up-to-date biological and medical databases a round the world and to link information from protein maps to genome in formation and diseases. Its extensive access is open through World Wid e Web. Its concept could be extended to patient data including texts, laboratory data, relevant literature findings, sounds, images and movi es. A new hypermedia culture is spreading very rapidly where the inter national fast transmission of documents is the central element. It is part of the emerging new ''information society''.