A Survey of the Availability of Primary Bioinformatics Web Resources

Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 70-76

  Thireou, Trias ^a,b   Spyrou, George ^a   Atlamazoglou, Vassilis ^a  

^a BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

bioinformatics resources; link validity; web reference persistence

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; FACTUAL DATABASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; REFERENCE DATABASE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; VALIDATION PROCESS; WEB BROWSER;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; INTERNET; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34250180887     PISSN: 16720229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1672-0229(07)60017-5     Document Type: Article

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