03848nam 22006975 450 991013670070332120200424112023.00-226-41650-X10.7208/9780226416502(CKB)3710000000907323(StDuBDS)EDZ0001588080(MiAaPQ)EBC4532277(DE-B1597)524037(OCoLC)960879928(DE-B1597)9780226416502(EXLCZ)99371000000090732320200424h20162016 fg engur|||||||||||rdacontentrdacontentrdamediardacarrierData-Centric Biology A Philosophical Study /Sabina LeonelliChicago : University of Chicago Press, [2016]©20161 online resource illustrations (black and white)Previously issued in print: 2016.0-226-41647-X 0-226-41633-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Making Data Travel: Technology and Expertise -- 2. Managing Data Journeys: Social Structures -- 3. What Counts as Data? -- 4. What Counts as Experiment? -- 5. What Counts as Theory? -- 6. Researching Life in the Digital Age -- 7. Handling Data to Produce Knowledge -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexIn recent decades, there has been a major shift in the way researchers process and understand scientific data. Digital access to data has revolutionized ways of doing science in the biological and biomedical fields, leading to a data-intensive approach to research that uses innovative methods to produce, store, distribute, and interpret huge amounts of data. In Data-Centric Biology, Sabina Leonelli probes the implications of these advancements and confronts the questions they pose. Are we witnessing the rise of an entirely new scientific epistemology? If so, how does that alter the way we study and understand life-including ourselves? Leonelli is the first scholar to use a study of contemporary data-intensive science to provide a philosophical analysis of the epistemology of data. In analyzing the rise, internal dynamics, and potential impact of data-centric biology, she draws on scholarship across diverse fields of science and the humanities-as well as her own original empirical material-to pinpoint the conditions under which digitally available data can further our understanding of life. Bridging the divide between historians, sociologists, and philosophers of science, Data-Centric Biology offers a nuanced account of an issue that is of fundamental importance to our understanding of contemporary scientific practices.BiologyData processingPhilosophyBiologyResearchPhilosophyKnowledge, Theory ofBiologyResearchSociological aspectsResearchPhilosophyOpen Data.Open Science.big data.data science.data.database.evidence.scientific epistemology.scientific methods.BiologyData processingPhilosophy.BiologyResearchPhilosophy.Knowledge, Theory of.BiologyResearchSociological aspects.ResearchPhilosophy.570.285WC 3420SEPArvkLeonelli Sabina, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut761717DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910136700703321Data-Centric Biology2238820UNINA