A call for virtual experiments: Accelerating the scientific process

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 99-106

  Cooper, Jonathan ^a   Vik, Jon Olav ^b   Waltemath, Dagmar ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computational physiology; Functional curation; Model comparison; Reproducible research; Virtual experiments

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; RESEARCH; SCIENCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; RESEARCH; SCIENCE;

EID: 84924718205     PISSN: 00796107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2014.10.001     Document Type: Article

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