On the epistemological crisis in genomics

Current Genomics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 69-79

  Dougherty, Edward R ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EPISTEMOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; KNOWLEDGE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; STATISTICS; STEADY STATE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS THEORY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 45849113320     PISSN: 13892029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138920208784139546     Document Type: Review

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