Ontology (Science)

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 21-35

  Smith, Barry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

biomedical informatics; expert peer review; Gene Ontology; OBO Foundry; ontology engineering; scientific method

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; GENES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS; DATA INTENSIVE; EXPERT PEER REVIEW; GENE ONTOLOGY; LIFE-SCIENCES; OBO FOUNDRY; ONTOLOGY ENGINEERING; ONTOLOGY'S; PEER REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC METHOD;

GENE ONTOLOGY;

EID: 84875914217     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-58603-923-3-21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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