Ontology driven modeling for the knowledge of genetic susceptibility to disease

Kobe Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Lin, Yu ^a   Sakamoto, Norihiro ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Genetic susceptibility; Knowledge representation; Modeling; Ontology; OWL

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMPETENCE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; METAPHYSICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; ONTOLOGY DRIVEN MODELING; ONTOLOGY WEB LANGUAGE; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; WEB BROWSER;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 67049097166     PISSN: 00232513     EISSN: 18830498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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