Shared Horizons: Data, Biomedicine, And The Digital Humanities / quote 2 of 2

Hybrid fields

the focus for this symposium will be to bring together the digital humanities and the bioinformatics communities --both hybrid fields whose members seek to apply computationally-based research methods to address questions within their larger disciplines (humanities and biomedicine, respectively).

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