Cyberinfrastructure for Biology
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Resources for the Biological Cyberinfrastructure
This is a companion wiki page for an article in Nature Reviews Genetics by Lincoln Stein:
Biology is an information-driven science. Large-scale data sets from genomics, physiology, population genetics and imaging are driving research at a dizzying rate. Simultaneously, interdisciplinary collaborations among experimental biologists, theorists, statisticians and computer scientists have become the key to making effective use of these data sets. However, too many biologists have trouble accessing and utilizing these electronic data sets and tools effectively. A “cyberinfrastructure” is a combination of databases, network protocols and computational services that brings people, information and computational tools together to perform science in this information-driven world.
This companion wiki gives pointers to some of the current and pending implementations of a biological cyberinfrastructure.
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