Undergraduate Bioinformatics Workshops Provide Perceived Skills
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Undergraduate Bioinformatics Workshops Provide Perceived Skills †
INTRODUCTION According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), bioinformatics includes " research, development, or application of computational tools and approaches for expanding the use of biological, medical, behavioral or health data, including those to acquire, store, organize, archive, analyze, or visualize such data " (2). With the increasing availability of biological information in ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1935-7877,1935-7885
DOI: 10.1128/jmbe.v15i2.638