Phendisco: Phenotype discovery system for the database of genotypes and phenotypes

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 31-36

  Doan, Son ^a   Lin, Ko Wei ^a   Conway, Mike ^a   Ohno Machado, Lucila ^a   Hsieh, Alex ^a   Feupe, Stephanie Feudjio ^a   Garland, Asher ^a   Ross, Mindy K ^a   Jiang, Xiaoqian ^a   Farzaneh, Seena ^a   Walker, Rebecca ^a   Alipanah, Neda ^a   Zhang, Jing ^a   Xu, Hua ^b   Kim, Hyeon Eui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DATA BASE; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PHENOTYPE; SEARCH ENGINE;

DBGAP; GWAS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PHENOTYPE STANDARDIZATION; TEXT MINING;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PHENOTYPE; SUBJECT HEADINGS;

EID: 84890495962     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-001882     Document Type: Article

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