Toward discovery support systems: A replication, re-examination, and extension of Swanson's work on literature-based discovery of a connection between Raynaud's and fish oil

Journal of the American Society for Information Science

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 116-128

  Gordon, Michael D ^a   Lindsay, Robert K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL COMPUTING; OILS AND FATS;

DIETARY FISH OIL; DISCOVERY SUPPORT SYSTEMS; RAYNAUD'S DISEASE;

DISEASES;

EID: 0030086379     PISSN: 00028231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199602)47:2<116::AID-ASI3>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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