The importance of pathology informatics in translational research

Advances in Anatomic Pathology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 320-322

  Mohanty, Sambit K ^a   Parwani, Anil V ^a   Crowley, Rebecca S ^a   Winters, Sharon ^a   Becich, Michael J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Pathology informatics; Translational research

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; CANCER REGISTRY; DATA BASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; TELEPATHOLOGY; TISSUE MICROARRAY;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; PATHOLOGY, SURGICAL;

EID: 34548162417     PISSN: 10724109     EISSN: 15334031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAP.0b013e3180ca8a79     Document Type: Review

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