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The Challenges of Programming: A Brief Introduction

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Computing for Comparative Microbial Genomics

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Ussery, D.W., Wassenaar, T.M., Borini, S. (2009). The Challenges of Programming: A Brief Introduction. In: Ussery, D.W., Wassenaar, T.M., Borini, S. (eds) Computing for Comparative Microbial Genomics. Computational Biology, vol 8. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-255-5_5

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