Ten Simple Rules for Developing Public Biological Databases

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  Helmy, Mohamed ^a   Crits Christoph, Alexander ^b   Bader, Gary D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DATABASE; SIMPLE++;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; BIOLOGICAL DATABASE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DATA BASE; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DATA QUALITY; EDITORIAL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION STORAGE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL MEDIA; BIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; INTERNET;

BIOLOGY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; INTERNET;

EID: 84999885067     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005128     Document Type: Editorial

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