The environment ontology: Contextualising biological and biomedical entities

Journal of Biomedical Semantics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Buttigieg, Pier Luigi ^a   Morrison, Norman ^d   Smith, Barry ^c   Mungall, Christopher J ^b   Lewis, Suzanna E ^b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biome; Ecosystem; Environment; Ontology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978127960     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-1480-4-43     Document Type: Article

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