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Understanding Life Together: A Brief History of Collaboration in Biology (2013)

Vermeulen, Niki (Author)
Parker, John N. (Author)
Penders, Bart (Author)

Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Volume: 37
Pages: 162-171

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Communication within scientific contexts Scientific communities; interprofessional relations Biology Marine biology Scientists 20th century, late 21st century United States Human Genome Project Census of Marine Life (1999-2009)

The history of science shows a shift from single-investigator `little science' to increasingly large, expensive, multinational, interdisciplinary and interdependent `big science'. In physics and allied fields this shift has been well documented, but the rise of collaboration in the life sciences and its effect on scientific work and knowledge has received little attention. Research in biology exhibits different historical trajectories and organisation of collaboration in field and laboratory -- differences still visible in contemporary collaborations such as the Census of Marine Life and the Human Genome Project. We employ these case studies as strategic exemplars, supplemented with existing research on collaboration in biology, to expose the different motives, organisational forms and social dynamics underpinning contemporary large-scale collaborations in biology and their relations to historical patterns of collaboration in the life sciences. We find the interaction between research subject, research approach as well as research organisation influencing collaboration patterns and the work of scientists.

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Description Uses the Census of Marine Life and the Human Genome Project as case studies of the rise of large-scale collaborative work in the life sciences.

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