TY - CHAP
T1 - Genomic platforms and clinical research
AU - Cambrosio, Alberto
AU - Vignola-Gagné, Etienne
AU - Nelson, Nicole
AU - Keating, Peter
AU - Bourret, Pascale
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 selection and editorial matter Sahra Gibbon, Barbara Prainsack, Stephen Hilgartner and Janelle Lamoreaux, individual chapters, the contributors.
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - Scientists and clinicians increasingly use the term ‘platform’ to describe various facets of their work. Found on average in 23 titles/year of PubMed-indexed articles during the 1990s, this number rose to 248 during the first decade of the new century, and to 1,066 in the subsequent six years. A textual analysis of post-2000 titles shows that the term most frequently co-occurs with terms related to advanced, high-throughput (‘omics’) or biomedical imaging technologies. In this sense, platforms refer to technologies dependent upon sophisticated instruments, including computer equipment, bioinformatics tools, and biological reagents. The term is also used as a synonym for ‘core facilities’ – collections of equipment shared by researchers from one or more institutions.
AB - Scientists and clinicians increasingly use the term ‘platform’ to describe various facets of their work. Found on average in 23 titles/year of PubMed-indexed articles during the 1990s, this number rose to 248 during the first decade of the new century, and to 1,066 in the subsequent six years. A textual analysis of post-2000 titles shows that the term most frequently co-occurs with terms related to advanced, high-throughput (‘omics’) or biomedical imaging technologies. In this sense, platforms refer to technologies dependent upon sophisticated instruments, including computer equipment, bioinformatics tools, and biological reagents. The term is also used as a synonym for ‘core facilities’ – collections of equipment shared by researchers from one or more institutions.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85050433388&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781315451695
DO - 10.4324/9781315451695
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85050433388
SN - 9781138211957
SP - 142
EP - 150
BT - Routledge Handbook of Genomics, Health and Society
PB - Taylor and Francis Ltd.
ER -