The spatio-temporal database research community has just started to investigate benchmarking issues. On one hand we would rather have a benchmark that is representative of real world applications, in order to verify the expressiveness of proposed models. On the other hand, we would like a benchmark that offers a sizeable workload of data and query sets, which could obviously stress the strengths and weaknesses of a broad range of data access methods. This paper offers a framework for spatio-temporal data sets generator, a first step towards a full benchmark for the large real world application field of "smoothly" moving objects with few or no restrictions in motion. The driving application is the modelling of fishing ships where the ships go in the direction of the most attractive shoals of fish while trying to avoid storm areas. Fishes are themselves attracted by plankton areas. Ships are moving points; plankton or storm areas are regions with fixed centre but moving shape; and shoals are moving regions. The specification is written in such a way that the users can easily adjust generation model parameters.

There is no unified place where genomics researchers can search through all available raw genomic data in a way similar to OMIM for genes or Uniprot for proteins. With the recent increase in the amount of genomic data that is being produced and the ever-growing promises of precision medicine, this is becoming more and more of a problem. DNAdigest is a charity working to promote efficient sharing of human genomic data to improve the outcome of genomic research and diagnostics for the benefit of patients. Repositive, a social enterprise spin-out of DNAdigest, is building an online platform that indexes genomic data stored in repositories and thus enables researchers to search for and access a range of human genomic data sources through a single, easy-to-use interface, free of charge.

The authors gratefully acknowledge the thoughtful and pertinent comments and suggestions of the anonymous reviewers, as well as Don Menzel. They are also grateful to Luis de Sousa (for comments and suggestions, as well as for helping us to obtain his papers cited here), and to the Permanent Observatory on Portuguese Justice.

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