XperimentR: Painless annotation of a biological experiment for the laboratory scientist

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Tomlinson, Chris D ^a   Barton, Geraint R ^a   Woodbridge, Mark ^a   Butcher, Sarah A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biological data management; Experimental annotation; Ontologies

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DATA; BIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS; BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; DATA PRESERVATIONS; DATA REPOSITORIES; EXPERIMENTAL ANNOTATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT; OPEN-SOURCE; PUBLIC DATABASE; PUBLIC REPOSITORIES; USER-FRIENDLY SOFTWARE TOOLS; VIRTUAL MACHINES; WEB APPLICATION; WEB-BASED SOFTWARES;

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LABORATORIES; METADATA; ONTOLOGY;

EXPERIMENTS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNET; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; PERSONNEL; RESEARCH;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 84872175665     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-14-8     Document Type: Article

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