Multiple ontologies in action: Composite annotations for biosimulation models

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 146-154

  Gennari, John H ^a   Neal, Maxwell L ^a   Galdzicki, Michal ^a   Cook, Daniel L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Annotation; Biomedical ontology; Biosimulation; Computer simulation

Indexed keywords

ANNOTATION; BIOLOGICAL ENTITIES; BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIOMEDICAL ONTOLOGY; BIOSIMULATION; MODEL COMPOSITION; MODEL MERGING; MODEL VARIABLES; MULTIPLE REFERENCES; PHYSICS-BASED; SINGLE SOURCE; TOOLS AND METHODS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MERGING; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; SEMANTICS;

ONTOLOGY;

AORTA; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

ANATOMY; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DOCUMENTATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 79952012805     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2010.06.007     Document Type: Article

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