Descriptive Science

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3835-3836

  Casadevall, Arturo ^a,c   Fang, Ferric C ^b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Golding 701 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MEDICINE; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENCE;

PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; SCIENCE;

EID: 51949113923     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00743-08     Document Type: Note

References (11)

1. Aebersold, R., L. E. Hood, and J. D. Watts. 2000. Equipping scientists for the new biology. Nat. Biotechnol. 18:359.
2. Albee, E. 1907. Descriptive and normative sciences. Philos. Rev. 16:40-49.
3. American Society for Microbiology. 2008. Instructions to authors. Infect. Immun. 76:1-20.
4. Anonymous. 2008. Merriam-Webster online dictionary. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/descriptive.
5. Bassler. B., S. Bell, A. Cowman, B. Goldman, D. Holden, V. Miller, T. Pugsley, and B. Simons. 2004. Editorial policy on genome-scale analyses. Mol. Microbiol. 52:311-312.
6. Darwin, C., F. Burkhardt (ed.), and S. Smith (ed.). 1985. The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. United Kingdom.
7. Doyle, A. C. 1986. A study in scarlet. Bantam, New York, NY.
8. Grimaldi, D. A., and M. S. Engel. 2008. Why descriptive science still matters. Bioscience 57:646-647.
9. Grimes, D. A., and K. F. Schulz. 2002. Descriptive studies: what they can and cannot do. Lancet 359:145-149.
10. Kell, D. B, and S. G. Oliver. 2004. Here is the evidence, now what is the hypothesis? The complementary roles of inductive and hypothesis-driven science in the post-genomic era. Bioessays 26:99-105.
11. Marincola, F. M. 2007. In support of descriptive studies: relevance to trans-lational research. J. Translat. Med. 5:21.