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...

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Published in:	Studies in History & Philosophy of Science Part A Vol. 38; no. 4; pp. 642 - 657
Main Author:	Shrager, Jeff
Format:	Article
Published:	Elsevier B.V. Dec2007
Subjects:	Programming languages Electronic data processing Artificial languages Computer software
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