A toolbox for developing bioinformatics software

Briefings in Bioinformatics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 244-257

  Rother, Kristian ^a   Potrzebowski, Wojciech ^b   Puton, Tomasz ^a   Rother, Magdalena ^a   Wywial, Ewa ^a   Bujnicki, Janusz M ^a  

^a AMU   (Poland)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Programming; Project management; Software development; Software quality

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; METHODOLOGY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; RNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84858236105     PISSN: 14675463     EISSN: 14774054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbr035     Document Type: Article

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