Collaborative cloud-enabled tools allow rapid, reproducible biological insights

ISME Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 461-464

  Ragan Kelley, Benjamin ^a   Walters, William Anton ^b   McDonald, Daniel ^b,c   Riley, Justin ^d   Granger, Brian E ^e   Gonzalez, Antonio ^c   Knight, Rob ^b,f   Perez, Fernando ^a   Caporaso, J Gregory ^g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UCB 450   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g Center for Materials Interfaces in Research and Applications   (United States)

^h ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84876480696     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2012.123     Document Type: Note

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