Light-weight integration of molecular biological databases

Bioinformatics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 51-57

  Philippi, Stephan ^a  

^a University of Koblenz   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HYPERMEDIA; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PILOT PROJECTS; SOFTWARE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0347724160     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btg372     Document Type: Article

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