Game On, Science - How Video Game Technology May Help Biologists Tackle Visualization Challenges

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Lv, Zhihan ^a,b   Tek, Alex ^a,d   Da Silva, Franck ^a   Empereur mot, Charly ^a   Chavent, Matthieu ^c   Baaden, Marc ^a  

^a France   (France)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c DIF   (France)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EDUCATION; RESEARCH; SCIENCE; TECHNOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WEBSERVER;

BIOLOGY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SCIENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATIC ELECTRICITY; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 84874639659     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057990     Document Type: Article

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