Using bioinformatics to keep “pay for performance” fair: a modest proposal
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A modest proposal for research.
Complexity is conducive to dependence on specialists on the one hand, and mistrust of them on the other. If you read in the Bulletin, “A dendrogram of sequence-relatedness was constructed by the method of the VPI maximumlikelihood bootstrap consensus tree (PUZZLE, version 4.0)” (1), and this is not in your area of specialization, you might respect it for its apparent professionalism, resent it ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurosurgical Focus
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1092-0684
DOI: 10.3171/foc.2005.19.4.8