Emerging Bioinformatic Networks: Contesting the Public Meaning of Private and the Private Meaning of Public
Open Access
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Pluto Journals in Prometheus
- Vol. 18 (4)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/08109020020008532
Abstract
This paper explores the complexity of public/private identities in the emerging global economies of gene sequence mapping and analysis. In so doing we seek to offer a less over-determined acccount of what it means to describe institutional actors as either 'public' or 'private'. Instead, these 'codes' can be seen to offer actors a means of mutual positioning that, more usually conceals broader interdependencies within the world's bioinformatics networks.Keywords
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