BioMOBY successfully integrates distributed heterogeneous bioinformatics Web Services. The PlaNet exemplar case

Plant Physiology

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 5-17

  Wilkinson, Mark ^a   Schoof, Heiko ^b,c   Ernst, Rebecca ^c   Haase, Dirk ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; GENES; MICROORGANISMS; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

BIOINFORMATICS; DATA SOURCES; INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY;

INTEROPERABILITY;

DATA BASES; GENES;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; PLANT;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; DATABASES, GENETIC; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; PLANTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 27244434525     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.104.059170     Document Type: Article

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