How Hard Can it be to Build a Bad Biological Database?

Apr 14, 2010

The Wood for the Trees blog's Maria Hodges offers her 10 ideas for those researchers looking to build a really "terrible" database: First, make submission of data difficult, because scientists are smart people, and they'll eventually figure out how to do it.

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