Automated comparative auditing of NCIT genomic roles using NCBI

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 904-913

  Cohen, Barry ^a   Oren, Marc ^a   Min, Hua ^b   Perl, Yehoshua ^a   Halper, Michael ^c  

^a University Heights   (United States)

^b FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c KEAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated auditing; Biological Process hierarchy; Biomedical knowledge base; Gene hierarchy; Gene terminology; NCBI Entrez Gene; NCBI GenBank; NCI Thesaurus; Web crawler

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BLOCK CODES; ERRORS; GENES; TERMINOLOGY; THESAURI;

AUTOMATED AUDITING; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS HIERARCHY; BIOMEDICAL KNOWLEDGE BASE; NCBI ENTREZ GENE; NCBI GENBANK; NCI THESAURUS; WEB CRAWLER;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA BASE; GENE LOCATION; GENOMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENOMICS; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); UNITED STATES;

EID: 55549143991     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2008.03.010     Document Type: Article

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