BiobankConnect: Software to rapidly connect data elements for pooled analysis across biobanks using ontological and lexical indexing

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 65-75

  Pang, Chao ^a   Hendriksen, Dennis ^a   Dijkstra, Martijn ^a   Joeri Van Der Velde, K ^a,b   Kuiper, Joel ^a   Hillege, Hans L ^a   Swertz, Morris A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biobank; Data integration; Harmonization; Search

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; ONTOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL ONTOLOGY; BIOLOGY; DOCUMENTATION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; BIOLOGICAL ONTOLOGIES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATASETS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; SOFTWARE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84929514283     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-002577     Document Type: Article

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