The effect of training on biologists acceptance of bioinformatics tools: A field experiment

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 719-730

  Shachak, Aviv ^a,b   Fine, Sara ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS TOOLS; BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL (TAM);

DECISION THEORY; MICROARRAYS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

BIOINFORMATICS;

EID: 41449092581     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20772     Document Type: Article

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