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Table of Contents

  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Biology, Computers, Data
  • Biology Transformed
  • Naturalists vs. Experimentalists?
  • The Laboratory and Experimentalism
  • The Museum and Natural History
  • 1. Live Museums
    • Microbes at the American Museum of Natural History
    • The Industrialization of Mice
    • Corn in an Agricultural Station
    • Sharing Flies
    • Viruses, Bacteria, and the Rise of Molecular Genetics
    • Putting Stock Centers on the Federal Agenda
    • Biological Collections Become Mainstream
  • 2. Blood Banks
    • Measuring Species, ca. 1900
    • Alan A. Boyden’s Serological Systematics
    • A Museum in a Laboratory
    • Between Field and Laboratory: Charles G. Sibley
    • Collecting in the Field
    • Hybridization, Not Invasion
  • 3 Data Atlases
    • Understanding How Proteins Work
    • Cracking the Genetic Code
    • From the Field to the Laboratory
    • Margaret O. Dayhoff, Computers, and Proteins
    • The Atlas of Protein Sequence and Structure
    • A Work of Compilation?
    • The Gender of Collecting
    • Research with the Atlas
    • Whose Data? Whose Database?
  • 4. Virtual Collections
    • From Physical to Virtual Models
    • The Systematic Study of Protein Structures
    • The Creation of the Protein Data Bank
    • The Natural History of Macromolecules
    • Privacy, Priority, and Property
    • A New Tool for Research
  • 5. Public Databases
    • Information Overload on the Horizon
    • Margaret O. Dayhoff vs. Walter B. Goad
    • Europe Takes the Lead
    • Mobilizing the National Institutes of Health
    • Collecting Data, Negotiating Credit and Access
    • Distributing Data, Negotiating Ownership
    • A Conservative Revolution
  • 6. Open Science
    • Databases, Journals, and the Gatekeepers of Scientific Knowledge
    • Databases and the Production of Experimental Knowledge
    • Sequence Databases, Genomics, and Computer Networks
    • The Rise of Open Science
    • Databases, Journals, and the Record of Science
    • Conclusion
    • The End of Model Organisms?
    • The New Politics of Knowledge
  • Archives Consulted
  • Bibliography
  • Notes
  • Index

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