The use of web ontology languages and other semantic web tools in drug discovery

Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 413-423

  Chen, Huajun ^a   Xie, Guotong ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b IBM CHINA RESEARCH LAB   (China)

Author keywords

Data integration; Drug discovery; Ontology; Semantic web

Indexed keywords

DRUG RESEARCH; INTERNET; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEMANTICS;

EID: 77951696411     PISSN: 17460441     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/17460441003762709     Document Type: Review

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