Engineering bioinformatics: Building reliability, performance and productivity into bioinformatics software

Bioengineered

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 193-203

  Lawlor, Brendan ^a   Walsh, Paul ^b  

^a Ireland   (Ireland)

^b NSilico Lifescience Ltd   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Microbial biotechnology; Process; Software; Software engineering; Survey

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; BIOLOGY; DATA MINING; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION;

CAREER CHOICE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATA MINING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84948155696     PISSN: 21655979     EISSN: 21655987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21655979.2015.1050162     Document Type: Article

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