Networking biology: The origins of sequence-sharing practices in genomics

Technology and Culture

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 839-867

  Stevens, Hallam ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER NETWORK; GENOMICS; HISTORY; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMPUTERS; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; GENOMICS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84948129167     PISSN: 0040165X     EISSN: 10973729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/tech.2015.0119     Document Type: Article

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