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And the Winner Is … "Ethomics"

May 05, 2009

Jonathan Eisen has bestowed his "worst new omics award" to Kristin Branson, Alice Robie, John Bender, Pietro Perona, and Michael Dickinson, the authors of a Nature Methods paper on ethomics. Eisen gives them this honor for "for trying to extend omics to ethogram and behavioral plots."

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