PyPedia: Using the wiki paradigm as crowd sourcing environment for bioinformatics protocols

Source Code for Biology and Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Kanterakis, Alexandros ^a,b   Kuiper, Joël ^a   Potamias, George ^b   Swertz, Morris A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Open science; Python; Web services; Wiki

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027955396     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17510473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13029-015-0042-6     Document Type: Article

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