A strategy for building neuroanatomy ontologies

Bioinformatics

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1262-1269

  Osumi Sutherland, David ^a   Reeve, Simon ^a   Mungall, Christopher J ^b   Neuhaus, Fabian ^c   Ruttenberg, Alan ^c   Jefferis, Gregory S X E ^d   Armstrong, J Douglas ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e Institute for Neural Computation   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; ANTENNA (ORGAN); ARTICLE; BRAIN; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; HISTOLOGY; INTERNET; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROANATOMY;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD ANTENNAE; BRAIN; DROSOPHILA; INTERNET; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROANATOMY; NEURONS; SOFTWARE; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 84860490152     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts113     Document Type: Article

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