OntoCAT - simple ontology search and integration in Java, R and REST/JavaScript

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Adamusiak, Tomasz ^a   Burdett, Tony ^a   Kurbatova, Natalja ^a   Joeri van der Velde, K ^b   Abeygunawardena, Niran ^a   Antonakaki, Despoina ^b   Kapushesky, Misha ^a   Parkinson, Helen ^a   Swertz, Morris A ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOOGLE APP ENGINES; HETEROGENEOUS ONTOLOGY; LOOKUP SERVICES; PROGRAMMING INTERFACE; REMOTE SERVICES; REST WEB SERVICES; REUSE AND INTEGRATIONS; SOFTWARE EFFORT;

BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; PLATFORM AS A SERVICE (PAAS); WEB SERVICES;

QUERY PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VOCABULARY; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 79959911238     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-218     Document Type: Article

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