Ontology patterns for tabular representations of biomedical knowledge on neglected tropical diseases

Bioinformatics

Volumn 27, Issue 13, 2011, Pages

  Santana, Filipe ^a   Schober, Daniel ^b   Medeiros, Zulma ^c,d   Freitas, Fred ^a   Schulz, Stefan ^e  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISEASE CARRIER; HUMAN; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE; NEGLECTED DISEASE; NOMENCLATURE; PARASITOSIS; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE VECTORS; HUMANS; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE; NEGLECTED DISEASES; PARASITIC DISEASES; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 79959473669     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr226     Document Type: Article

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