Collaboration in metagenomics: Sequence databases and the organization of scientific work

ECSCW 2009 - Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 243-262

  Bietz, Matthew J ^a   Lee, Charlotte P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

BOUNDARY OBJECTS; COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY; EMERGING SCIENCE; ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY; SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INNOVATION; SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SEQUENCE DATABASE;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 77954519767     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84882-854-4_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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