DOORS to the semantic web and grid with a PORTAL for biomedical computing

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 191-204

  Taswell, Carl ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Global TeleGenetics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical computing; BioPORT; Cross directory search; Distributed grid; DNS; DOORS; IRIS; Metadata registry; OWL; PORTAL; RDF; Semantic web; XML

Indexed keywords

GRID COMPUTING; MEDICAL COMPUTING; METADATA; SEMANTIC WEB; XML;

BIOMEDICAL COMPUTING; DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM (DNS); INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEM;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

BIOLOGY; COOPERATION; DATA BASE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; REGISTER; REVIEW; SEMANTICS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; REGISTRIES; SEMANTICS;

EID: 41549131331     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2007.905861     Document Type: Article

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