EDAM: An ontology of bioinformatics operations, types of data and identifiers, topics and formats

Bioinformatics

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1325-1332

  Ison, Jon ^a   Kalaš, Matúš ^b,c   Jonassen, Inge ^b,c   Bolser, Dan ^a   Uludag, Mahmut ^a   McWilliam, Hamish ^a   Malone, James ^a   Lopez, Rodrigo ^a   Pettifer, Steve ^d   Rice, Peter ^a  

^a EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b Uni Computing   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FACTUAL DATABASE; METHODOLOGY; WORKFLOW;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; SOFTWARE; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84878001133     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt113     Document Type: Article

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