The End of 'Small Biology'? Some Thoughts About Biomedicine and Big Science

Big Data and Society:1-6 (2016)
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In biology—as in other scientific fields—there is a lively opposition between big and small science projects. In this commentary, I try to contextualize this opposition in the field of biomedicine, and I argue that, at least in this context, big science projects should come first.

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