BioAssay Ontology (BAO): A semantic description of bioassays and high-throughput screening results

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Visser, Ubbo ^a   Abeyruwan, Saminda ^a   Vempati, Uma ^b   Smith, Robin P ^b   Lemmon, Vance ^b,c   Schürer, Stephan C ^b,d  

^a University of Miami   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATIONS; EXPRESSIVE DESCRIPTION LOGIC; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING; LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA; PUBLIC REPOSITORIES; SEMANTIC DESCRIPTIONS; SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE; SEMANTIC QUERYING;

DATA DESCRIPTION; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; QUERY PROCESSING; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS;

BIOASSAY;

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 79959471969     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-257     Document Type: Article

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