Preparing a scientific manuscript in Linux: Today's possibilities and limitations

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Tchantchaleishvili, Vakhtang ^a   Schmitto, Jan D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Linux; manuscript; operating system; scientific software

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054742584     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-4-434     Document Type: Article

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