Validating associations in biological databases

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 142-151

  Couto, Francisco M ^a   Silva, Mário J ^a   Coutinho, Pedro M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Biological databases; Filtering associations; Knowledge management

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DATABASES; FILTERING ASSOCIATIONS; MISANNOTATIONS;

DATA MINING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; GENES; PROTEINS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 34547640661     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1183614.1183639     Document Type: Conference Paper

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