Text similarity: An alternative way to search MEDLINE

Bioinformatics

Volumn 22, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 2298-2304

  Lewis, James ^a   Ossowski, Stephan ^a   Hicks, Justin ^a   Errami, Mounir ^a   Garner, Harold R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDLINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 33748681100     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btl388     Document Type: Article

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