Rise and demise of bioinformatics? promise and progress

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Ouzounis, Christos A ^a,b  

^a INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FUTURE TRENDS; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

BIOINFORMATICS;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER MODEL; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; PREDICTION; TREND STUDY; BIOLOGY; FORECASTING;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FORECASTING;

EID: 84861146166     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002487     Document Type: Article

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