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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2014

Extracting patterns of database and software usage from the bioinformatics literature.

Geraint Duck, Goran Nenadic, Andy Brass, David L Robertson, Robert Stevens

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Geraint DuckSchool of Computer Science, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology and Computational and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
Goran NenadicSchool of Computer Science, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology and Computational and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK School of Computer Science, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology and Computational and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
Andy BrassSchool of Computer Science, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology and Computational and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK School of Computer Science, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology and Computational and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
David L RobertsonSchool of Computer Science, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology and Computational and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
Robert StevensSchool of Computer Science, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology and Computational and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationAs a natural consequence of being a computer-based discipline, bioinformatics has a strong focus on database and software development, but the volume and variety of resources are growing at unprecedented rates. An audit of database and software usage patterns could help provide an overview of developments in bioinformatics and community common practice, and comparing the links between resources through time could demonstrate both the persistence of existing software and the emergence of new tools.

resultsWe study the connections between bioinformatics resources and construct networks of database and software usage patterns, based on resource co-occurrence, that correspond to snapshots of common practice in the bioinformatics community. We apply our approach to pairings of phylogenetics software reported in the literature and argue that these could provide a stepping stone into the identification of scientific best practice. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The extracted resource data, the scripts used for network generation and the resulting networks are available at http://bionerds.sourceforge.net/networks/.

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Computational BiologySoftwareDatabases, FactualData MiningPeriodicals as TopicPhylogeny

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PMID25161253
PMCPMC4147923

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