Teaching the Fundamentals of Biological Data Integration Using Classroom Games

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Schneider, Maria Victoria ^a   Jimenez, Rafael C ^a  

^a EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PERSONNEL TRAINING; TEACHING;

BIOINFORMATIC TOOLS; BIOINFORMATICS RESOURCES; BIOLOGICAL DATA INTEGRATION; COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE; END-USERS; FORMAL TRAINING; INTEGRATION PROCESS; LIFE SCIENTISTS; SIMPLE++; WEB INTERFACE;

DATA INTEGRATION;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOINFORMATICS; CLINICAL EDUCATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA INTEGRATION; DATA PROCESSING; DISTRIBUTED ANNOTATION SYSTEM; GAME BASED LEARNING; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PROCEDURES; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE; WEB BROWSER;

EID: 84872017495     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002789     Document Type: Article

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