1. TREC genomics special issue overview.
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Hersh, William and Voorhees, Ellen
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BIOTECHNOLOGY ,HIGH technology ,GENE expression ,BIOLOGICAL research ,GENES ,INTEGRATED circuits ,SCIENTIFIC knowledge ,INFORMATION retrieval - Abstract
The article focuses on the recent advances in biotechnology. It cites that the advances in the biotechnology have changed the key nature of biological researches. It relates that scientists in the past used paper notebooks or simple spreadsheets to document their experiments, but at present, scientists use various new tools such as gene chips or measuring gene expression or sequence variation that brought changes and has altered their works and reveals potential associations and interactions with a variety of genes and other biological entities. It also mentions that the advances in biotechnology brought a massive increase in the scientific knowledge of scientists. The establishment of the Text Retrieval Conference in the U.S. is also discussed.
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- 2009
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