Grains, components and mixtures in biomedical ontologies

Journal of Biomedical Semantics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Jansen, Ludger ^a   Schulz, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

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EID: 84880724565     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-1480-2-S4-S2     Document Type: Article

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