Biology needs evolutionary software tools: Let's build them right

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 1372-1375

  Nekrutenko, Anton ^a   Team, Galaxy ^b   Goecks, Jeremy ^c   Taylor, James ^d   Blankenberg, Daniel ^e  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Galaxy Project   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational biology; Evolutionary biology; Software

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; DOCUMENTATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION BIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; SOFTWARE; BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; STANDARDS;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 85050857768     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msy084     Document Type: Article

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