Thesaurus-based disambiguation of gene symbols

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Schijvenaars, Bob J A ^a   Mons, Barend ^a   Weeber, Marc ^a   Schuemie, Martijn J ^a   van Mulligen, Erik M ^a   Wain, Hester M ^b   Kors, Jan A ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; BIOLOGICAL LITERATURES; HUMAN GENES; MULTIPLE GENES; OVERALL ACCURACIES; TEST SETS; TEXT MINING; TRAINING DATA;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC TEST PATTERN GENERATION; DATA MINING; THESAURI;

GENES;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MEDLINE; SYMBOLISM; CONTROLLED VOCABULARY; GENE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NOMENCLATURE; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENES; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; SYMBOLISM; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 25444465132     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-6-149     Document Type: Article

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