The origins of bioinformatics

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 231-236

  Hagen, Joel B ^a  

^a RADFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN;

ART; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; GENETICS; HISTORY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; PORTRAITS; PROTEINS;

EID: 0034571467     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35042090     Document Type: Review

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