The evolution of BioBike: Community adaptation of a biocomputing platform
Abstract: Programming languages are, at the same time, instruments and communicative artifacts that evolve rapidly through use. In this paper I describe an online computing platform called BioBike. BioBike is a trading zone where biologists and programmers collaborate in the development of an extend...
| Publicado en: | Studies in History & Philosophy of Science Part A Vol. 38; no. 4; pp. 642 - 657 |
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Elsevier B.V.
Dec2007
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