Badomics words and the power and peril of the ome-meme

GigaScience

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Eisen, Jonathan A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Badomics; Genome; Genomics; Language; Language parasites; Memes; Ome ome; Omics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874928033     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2047217X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2047-217X-1-6     Document Type: Note

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