BAMS neuroanatomical ontology: Design and implementation

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 2, Issue MAY, 2008, Pages

  Bota, Mihail ^a   Swanson, Larry W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

BAMS; Neuron classification; Ontology; Rat; Structural neuroanatomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551516806     PISSN: 16625196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.11.002.2008     Document Type: Article

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