Alignment of the UMLS semantic network with BioTop: Methodology and assessment

Bioinformatics

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Schulz, Stefan ^a   Beisswanger, Elena ^b   van den Hoek, László ^c   Bodenreider, Olivier ^d   van Mulligen, Erik M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICINE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA MINING; DECISION MAKING; GENE MAPPING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDLINE; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SEMANTICS; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 66349113879     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp194     Document Type: Conference Paper

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