MaHCO: An ontology of the major histocompatibility complex for immunoinformatic applications and text mining

Bioinformatics

Volumn 25, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 2064-2070

  DeLuca, David S ^a,b   Beisswanger, Elena ^c   Wermter, Joachim ^c   Horn, Peter A ^d   Hahn, Udo ^c   Blasczyk, Rainer ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DATA MINING; HLA SYSTEM; IMMUNOGENETICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEB BROWSER;

ALLELES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, PROTEIN; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX;

EID: 68549128888     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp306     Document Type: Article

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