Open source tools and toolkits for bioinformatics: Significance, and where are we?

Briefings in Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 287-296

  Stajich, Jason E ^a   Lapp, Hilmar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Genomics; Open source; Software

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOMEDICINE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; LIBRARY; LICENCE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; REVIEW;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33748796893     PISSN: 14675463     EISSN: 14774054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbl026     Document Type: Review

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