Semantic integration of physiology phenotypes with an application to the cellular phenotype ontology

Bioinformatics

Volumn 28, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 1783-1789

  Hoehndorf, Robert ^a   Harris, Midori A ^a   Herre, Heinrich ^b   Rustici, Gabriella ^c   Gkoutos, Georgios V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; LINGUISTICS; PHENOTYPE; SEMANTICS;

CELL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PHENOTYPE; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 84863990917     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts250     Document Type: Article

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