Bringing Web 2.0 to bioinformatics

Briefings in Bioinformatics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-10

  Zhang, Zhang ^a   Cheung, Kei Hoi ^b   Townsend, Jeffrey P ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Pipelines; Scientific social community; Web 2.0; Web service

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; RESEARCH; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

HARNESS;

EID: 60749095693     PISSN: 14675463     EISSN: 14774054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbn041     Document Type: Article

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