``When sequence databases were first created the amount of data was small and it was important that the database entries were human readable. ... The result of this effort has been to create a large number of different databases, all in different formats, typically using non-standard data query software, and only really properly accessible to bioinformatics experts''
Baker & Brass. ``Recent development in biological sequence databases.'' Curr. Op. Biotech., 9:54-58, 1998.