A wiki for the life sciences where authorship matters

Nature Genetics

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1047-1051

  Hoffmann, Robert ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOMEDICINE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENOME ANALYSIS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; WIKIGENE SYSTEM; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DATABASES AS TOPIC; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE BASES; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PUBLISHING; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 50449088836     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.f.217     Document Type: Review

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