Are we divorced from the species we study?

In the past few years my interactions with the species I study have been restricted to strings of nucleotides spread across an LCD screen. Bioinformatics has provided me with an amazing window into some of the most interesting algae on Earth, but it has also made me feel distanced from my research o...

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Autor principal: Smith, David Roy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: F1000Research 2013
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Opinion Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3869477/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24555111
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.2-254.v1
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description In the past few years my interactions with the species I study have been restricted to strings of nucleotides spread across an LCD screen. Bioinformatics has provided me with an amazing window into some of the most interesting algae on Earth, but it has also made me feel distanced from my research organisms, and biology as a whole. This opinion article touches upon these feelings and asks whether many of us should reconsider our relationship to the taxa we investigate.
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spelling pubmed-38694772013-12-27 Are we divorced from the species we study? Smith, David Roy F1000Res Opinion Article In the past few years my interactions with the species I study have been restricted to strings of nucleotides spread across an LCD screen. Bioinformatics has provided me with an amazing window into some of the most interesting algae on Earth, but it has also made me feel distanced from my research organisms, and biology as a whole. This opinion article touches upon these feelings and asks whether many of us should reconsider our relationship to the taxa we investigate. F1000Research 2013-11-22 /pmc/articles/PMC3869477/ /pubmed/24555111 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.2-254.v1 Text en Copyright: © 2013 Smith DR http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Data associated with the article are available under the terms of the Creative Commons Zero "No rights reserved" data waiver (CC0 1.0 Public domain dedication).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3869477/
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