Scaling the walls of discovery: Using semantic metadata for integrative problem solving

Briefings in Bioinformatics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 164-176

  Manning, Maurice ^a   Aggarwal, Amit ^a   Gao, Kevin ^a   Tucker Kellogg, Greg ^a,b  

^a Eli Lilly Singapore Pte Ltd   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Architecture; Cancer; Data integration; Genomics; Metadata; Semantic web

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; BIOINFORMATICS; COOPERATION; DATA EXTRACTION; DATA MINING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PROBLEM SOLVING; PUBLICATION; REFERENCE DATABASE; REVIEW; SEMANTICS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE BASES; SEMANTICS; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 63349089861     PISSN: 14675463     EISSN: 14774054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbp007     Document Type: Review

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