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Beyond power: making bioinformatics tools user-centered

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User-centered design techniques can broaden the appeal, use, and effectiveness of Web-based bioinformatics tools.

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                                  cover image Communications of the ACM
                                  Communications of the ACM  Volume 47, Issue 11
                                  Bioinformatics
                                  November 2004
                                  106 pages
                                  ISSN:0001-0782
                                  EISSN:1557-7317
                                  DOI:10.1145/1029496
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