vHOG, a multispecies vertebrate ontology of homologous organs groups

Bioinformatics

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1017-1020

  Niknejad, Anne ^a,b   Comte, Aurélie ^a,b   Parmentier, Gilles ^a,b   Roux, Julien ^a,b,c   Bastian, Frederic B ^a,b   Robinson Rechavi, Marc ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; GENE EXPRESSION; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; VERTEBRATES; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 84858070795     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts048     Document Type: Article

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