Ontology driven modeling for the knowledge of genetic susceptibility to disease

Kobe Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2009, 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; BIOMEDICINE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY;

DIABETES MELLITUS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; MODELS, GENETIC; SEMANTICS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 75749089722     PISSN: 00232513     EISSN: 18830498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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