NanoParticle Ontology for cancer nanotechnology research

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 59-74

  Thomas, Dennis G ^a,b   Pappu, Rohit V ^b,c   Baker, Nathan A ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Annotation; BFO; BioPortal; Cancer; Informatics; Nanomaterial; Nanoparticle; Nanotechnology; NPO; Ontology

Indexed keywords

ANNOTATION; BFO; BIOPORTAL; CANCER; INFORMATICS; NANOMATERIAL; NPO;

DISEASES; INFORMATION SCIENCE; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; RESEARCH; SEMANTICS;

ONTOLOGY;

NANOPARTICLE; NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CANCER RESEARCH; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SOFTWARE; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 79952023581     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2010.03.001     Document Type: Article

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