Scalable representations of diseases in biomedical ontologies

Journal of Biomedical Semantics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Schulz, Stefan ^a,e   Spackman, Kent ^b   James, Andrew ^c   Cocos, Cristian ^d   Boeker, Martin ^e  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 79959389464     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-1480-2-S2-S6     Document Type: Article

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