Semantic Web for data harmonization in Chinese medicine

Chinese Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Cheung, Kei Hoi ^a   Chen, Huajun ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICINE; CHINESE MEDICINE; COMPUTER MODEL; DATA MINING; DATA SYNTHESIS; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; ONLINE SYSTEM; REFERENCE DATABASE; SEMANTICS;

EID: 76949106413     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8546-5-2     Document Type: Editorial

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