A quick guide for developing effective bioinformatics programming skills

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Dudley, Joel T ^a,b   Butte, Atul J ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LUCILE PACKARD CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROGRAMMING SKILLS;

BIOINFORMATICS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; REVIEW; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; UNITED STATES;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 74549126611     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000589     Document Type: Review

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