Virtual reference environments: A simple way to make research reproducible

Briefings in Bioinformatics

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 901-903

  Hurley, Daniel G ^a   Budden, David M ^a   Crampin, Edmund J ^a,b,c  

^a The University of Melbourne   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Open source; Reproducible research; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

REPRODUCIBILITY; RESEARCH; STANDARDS;

REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH;

EID: 84935016522     PISSN: 14675463     EISSN: 14774054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbu043     Document Type: Article

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