Generations of interdisciplinarity in bioinformatics

New Genetics and Society

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 186-209

  Bartlett, Andrew ^a   Lewis, Jamie ^a   Williams, Matthew L ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

big data; bioinformatics; collaboration; interdisciplinarity; scientific careers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BIRTH; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; MALE; MARRIAGE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PESSIMISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIALIZATION; SOCIOLOGIST;

EID: 84969794922     PISSN: 14636778     EISSN: 14699915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14636778.2016.1184965     Document Type: Article

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