Semantic web-based integration of cancer pathways and allele frequency data

Cancer Informatics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages 19-30

  Holford, Matthew E ^a   Rajeevan, Haseena ^b   Zhao, Hongyu ^a,b   Kidd, Kenneth K ^b   Cheung, Kei Hoi ^b,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA BASE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION RESEARCH; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; WEB BROWSER;

EID: 77649251842     PISSN: 11769351     EISSN: 11769351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/cin.s1006     Document Type: Review

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