Meeting report: Advancing practical applications of biodiversity ontologies

Standards in Genomic Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Walls, Ramona L ^a   Guralnick, Robert ^b   Deck, John ^c   Buntzman, Adam ^d   Buttigieg, Pier Luigi ^e   Davies, Neil ^c   Denslow, Michael W ^f   Gallery, Rachel E ^a   Parnell, J Jacob ^f   Osumi Sutherland, David ^g   Robbins, Robert J ^h   Rocca Serra, Philippe ⁱ   Wieczorek, John ^c   Zheng, Jie ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^f NATIONAL ECOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY NETWORK   (United States)

^g EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

Biodiversity; Community; Darwin Core; Microbial ecology; Ontology; OWL; Population; RDF; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; ONTOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION MODEL; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84971294668     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19443277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1944-3277-9-17     Document Type: Article

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