Patent searches as a complement to literature searches in the life sciences—a ‘how-to’ tutorial

Nature Protocols

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2418-2428

  Seeber, Frank ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; INTERNET; PATENT;

DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; INTERNET; PATENTS AS TOPIC; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 38449092333     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.355     Document Type: Article

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