Translating standards into practice - One Semantic Web API for Gene Expression

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 782-794

  Deus, Helena F ^a   Prud'hommeaux, Eric ^b   Miller, Michael ^c   Zhao, Jun ^d   Malone, James ^e   Adamusiak, Tomasz ^e   McCusker, Jim ^f   Das, Sudeshna ^g   Rocca Serra, Philippe ^d   Fox, Ronan ^a   Marshall, M Scott ^h,i  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^f RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Genomics; Linked Data; Microarrays; Pharmacogenomics; Semantic Web technologies; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

GENOMICS; LINKED DATUM; PHARMACOGENOMICS; SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

BIOINFORMATICS; DATA HANDLING; GENE EXPRESSION; HEALTH CARE; MICROARRAYS; STANDARDS;

EXPERIMENTS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; INTERNET; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHARMACOGENETICS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84865093047     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2012.03.002     Document Type: Article

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