Implications of informatics approaches in ecological research

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 4-12

  Metzger, Kelsey J ^a   Klaper, Rebecca ^b   Thomas, Michael A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Ecological informatics; Functional genomics; Gene expression; Multi disciplinary; Next generation sequencing

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOINFORMATICS; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GIS; INNOVATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESEARCH WORK;

EID: 79651471084     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2010.11.003     Document Type: Review

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