Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part One: Data Journeys
5. 1. Making Data Travel: Technology and Expertise 13
6. 2. Managing Data Journeys: Social Structures 45
7. Part Two: Data- Centric Science
8. 3. What Counts as Data? 69
9. 4. What Counts as Experiment? 93
10. 5. What Counts as Theory? 114
11. Part Three: Implications for Biology and Philosophy
12. 6. Researching Life in the Digital Age 141
13. 7. Handling Data to Produce Knowledge 176
14. Conclusion 193
15. Acknowledgments 199
16. Notes 203
17. Bibliography 237
18. Index 263