Managing chaos: Lessons learned developing software in the life sciences

Computing in Science and Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 20-29

  Killcoyne, Sarah ^a   Boyle, John ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS AND BENEFITS; INFORMATICS; LESSONS LEARNED; LIFE SCIENCES RESEARCH; LIFE-SCIENCES; RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT; SOFTWARE PROCESS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

RESEARCH;

EID: 70450273160     PISSN: 15219615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCSE.2009.198     Document Type: Article

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