Data-centric biology a philosophical study / Sabina Leonelli.
| Author/creator | Leonelli, Sabina |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2016] |
| Description | vi, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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: opportunities and future developments -- Handling data to produce knowledge; Problematizing context; From contexts to situations; Situating data in the digital age. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (page 237-262) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016015882 |
| ISBN | 9780226416335 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 022641633X (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780226416472 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 022641647X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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