Documenting the emergence of bio-ontologies: Or, why researching bioinformatics requires hpssb

History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 105-126

  Leonelli, Sabina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bio ontologies; Biocuration; Bioinformatics; Databases; Gene Ontology; Interdisciplinarity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; GENE; GENOMICS; HISTORY; HUMAN; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE; ONLINE SYSTEM;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENES; GENOMICS; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 78049446534     PISSN: 03919714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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