Exposing the cancer genome atlas as a SPARQL endpoint

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 998-1008

  Deus, Helena F ^a,b   Veiga, Diogo F ^a   Freire, Pablo R ^c   Weinstein, John N ^a   Mills, Gordon B ^a   Almeida, Jonas S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Data integration; Linked Data; RDF; SPARQL; TCGA

Indexed keywords

DATA INTEGRATION; LINKED DATUM; RDF; SPARQL; TCGA;

DATA HANDLING; GENES; QUERY LANGUAGES; REUSABILITY; WEB SERVICES;

SEMANTIC WEB;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOMEDICINE; CANCER GENETICS; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ATLASES AS TOPIC; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; GENOME; NEOPLASMS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 78649318168     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2010.09.004     Document Type: Article

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