Annotation of phenotypic diversity: Decoupling data curation and ontology curation using Phenex

Journal of Biomedical Semantics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Balhoff, James P ^a,b   Dahdul, Wasila M ^c   Dececchi, T Alexander ^c   Lapp, Hilmar ^a   Mabee, Paula M ^c   Vision, Todd J ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of South Dakota   (United States)

Author keywords

Annotation; Character matrix; Curation; Ontology; Phenotypes; Systematics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927940625     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-1480-5-45     Document Type: Article

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