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BMCBI
2005
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13 years 8 months ago
PHACCS, an online tool for estimating the structure and diversity of uncultured viral communities using metagenomic information
Background: Phages, viruses that infect prokaryotes, are the most abundant microbes in the world. A major limitation to studying these viruses is the difficulty of cultivating the...
Florent Angly, Beltran Rodriguez-Brito, David Bang...
HICSS
2008
IEEE
139views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
Understanding the Roles of Knowledge Sharing and Trust in Online Learning Communities
This paper builds upon action and design research aimed at enhancing scholarly community and conversation in a graduate school setting. In this paper we focus on knowledge sharing...
Brian Thoms, Nathan Garrett, Jesus Canelon Herrera...
APSEC
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Supporting Knowledge Collaboration Using Social Networks in a Large-Scale Online Community of Software Development Projects
The scale-free network shown in the small world phenomenon indicates that our human society consists of a small number of people who play the role of hubs linked with many nodes (...
Masao Ohira, Tetsuya Ohoka, Takeshi Kakimoto, Naok...
HICSS
2006
IEEE
160views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
A Case Study of a Longstanding Online Community of Practice Involving Critical Care and Advanced Practice Nurses
The aims of this study are: (1) to examine to what extent critical care and advanced practice nurses’ participation in an online listserv constituted a community of practice, an...
Noriko Hara, Khe Foon Hew
GROUP
2005
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Follow the (slash) dot: effects of feedback on new members in an online community
Many virtual communities involve ongoing discussions, with large numbers of users and established, if implicit rules for participation. As new users enter communities like this, b...
Cliff Lampe, Erik W. Johnston