QAV: Querying entity-attribute-value metadata in a biomedical database

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 93-103

  Nadkarni, Prakash M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Client server; Databases; entity attribute value; Metadata; query; relational

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; QUERY LANGUAGES;

BIOMEDICAL DATABASE; METADATA;

RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMEDICINE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PATIENT INFORMATION;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0031172716     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2607(97)01815-4     Document Type: Article

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