A bioinformatics track in computer science

SIGCSE'08 - Proceedings of the 39th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 508-512

  Khuri, Sami ^a  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics track; Course development; Curriculum issues

Indexed keywords

COURSE DEVELOPMENT; LIFE SCIENCES;

COMPUTERS; CURRICULA; EDUCATION COMPUTING;

BIOINFORMATICS;

EID: 57449109513     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1352135.1352305     Document Type: Conference Paper

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