Elucidating the role and use of bioinformatics software in life science research

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 230-238

  Morrison Smith, Sarah ^a   Boucher, Christina ^a   Bunt, Andrea ^b   Ruiz, Jaime ^a  

^a Department of Computer Science   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics Software; Data Driven Research; Qualitative Study

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

ANALYTICAL SOFTWARE; BIOINFORMATICS SOFTWARE; BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH; DATA DRIVEN; LIFE SCIENCE RESEARCH; QUALITATIVE STUDY; RESEARCH OBJECTIVES; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS;

BIOINFORMATICS;

EID: 85015417743     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2783446.2783581     Document Type: Conference Paper

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