SEMEDA: Ontology based semantic integration of biological databases

Bioinformatics

Volumn 19, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 2420-2427

  Köhler, Jacob ^a   Philippi, Stephan ^b   Lange, Matthias ^c  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b University of Koblenz ^*  (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC DATABASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC META DATABASE; STANDARD;

EID: 18844466577     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btg340     Document Type: Article

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