Life sciences on the Semantic Web: The Neurocommons and beyond

Briefings in Bioinformatics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 193-204

  Ruttenberg, Alan ^a   Rees, Jonathan A ^b   Samwald, Matthias ^c,d,e   Marshall, M Scott ^f  

^a W3C OWL Working ^*

^b W3C Technical Architecture Group

^c Lower Dangan   (Ireland)

^d KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND COGNITION RESEARCH   (Austria)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Data integration; Life science; Medicine; Neuroscience; Ontology; Semantic Web

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER NETWORK; DATA EXTRACTION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICE; KNOWLEDGE BASE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; NEUROSCIENCE; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; STANDARDIZATION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE BASES; SEMANTICS;

EID: 63349084462     PISSN: 14675463     EISSN: 14774054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbp004     Document Type: Review

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