The Ontology Lookup Service, a lightweight cross-platform tool for controlled vocabulary queries

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Côté, Richard G ^a   Jones, Philip ^a   Apweiler, Rolf ^a   Hermjakob, Henning ^a  

^a EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL DATA; BIOMEDICAL ONTOLOGIES; CROSS-PLATFORM; HIGH-THROUGHPUT ANALYSIS; LOOKUP SERVICES; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL; SEARCH MECHANISM;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; QUERY PROCESSING; USER INTERFACES;

VOCABULARY CONTROL;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NOMENCLATURE; ONLINE SYSTEM; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; CONTROLLED VOCABULARY; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; FACTUAL DATABASE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE;

DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 33645348241     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-97     Document Type: Article

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