When humans are the exception: Cross-species databases at the interface of biological and clinical research

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 214-236

  Leonelli, Sabina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

biomedicine; cross species research; data; databases; human subjects; model organism

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOMICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOMENCLATURE; QUALITY CONTROL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MODELS, ANIMAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84858212788     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: 14603659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306312711436265     Document Type: Article

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