Data-centric biology: a philosophical study

by Leonelli, Sabina

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Full title :Data-centric biology : a philosophical study / Sabina Leonelli.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016.

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Publisher(s):The University of Chicago Press
Place of Publication:Chicago
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

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Description:vi, 275 p. : : il

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ISBN:9780226416472, 022641647X, 9780226416335, 022641633X
oclc:on1055574632

Data journeys. Making data travel: technology and expertise ; The rise of online databases in biology ; Packaging data for travel ; The emerging power of database curators ; Data journeys and other metaphors of travel -- Managing data journeys: social structures ; The institutionalization of data packaging ; Centralization, dissent, and epistemic diversity ; Open data as global commodities ; Valuing data -- Data-centric science. What counts as data? ; Data in the philosophy of science ; A relational framework ; The nonlocality of data ; Packaging and modeling -- What counts as experiment? ; Capturing embodied knowledge ; When standards are not enough ; Distributed reasoning in data journeys ; Dreams of automation and replicability -- What counts as theory? ; Classifying data for travel ; Bio-ontologies as classificatory theories ; The epistemic role of classification ; Features of classificatory theories ; Theory in data-centric science -- Implications for biology and philosophy. Researching life in the digital age ; Varieties of data integration, different ways to understand organisms ; The impact of data centrism: dangers and exclusions ; The novelty of data centrism: opportunit…