On the growth of scientific knowledge: yeast biology as a case study.
The tempo and mode of human knowledge expansion is an enduring yet poorly understood topic. Through a temporal network analysis of three decades of discoveries of protein interactions and genetic interactions in baker's yeast, we show that the growth of scientific knowledge is exponential over...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2009-03-01
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| Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2649443?pdf=render |