The Monarch Initiative: An integrative data and analytic platform connecting phenotypes to genotypes across species

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 45, Issue D1, 2017, Pages D712-D722

  Mungall, Christopher J ^a   McMurry, Julie A ^b   Kohler, Sebastian ^c   Balhoff, James P ^d   Borromeo, Charles ^e   Brush, Matthew ^b   Carbon, Seth ^a   Conlin, Tom ^b   Dunn, Nathan ^a   Engelstad, Mark ^b   Foster, Erin ^b   Gourdine, J P ^b   Jacobsen, Julius O B ^f   Keith, Dan ^b   Laraway, Bryan ^b   Lewis, Suzanna E ^a   Xuan, Jeremy Nguyen ^a   Shefchek, Kent ^b   Vasilevsky, Nicole ^b   Yuan, Zhou ^e   Washington, Nicole ^a   Hochheiser, Harry ^e   Groza, Tudor ^g   Smedley, Damian ^f   Robinson, Peter N ^c,h   Haendel, Melissa A ^b   more..

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^h JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DATA ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SERVICE; MONARCH INITIATIVE; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; WEB BROWSER; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROCEDURES; SEARCH ENGINE; SOFTWARE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATA CURATION; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; SEARCH ENGINE; SOFTWARE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WEB BROWSER;

EID: 85016157374     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw1128     Document Type: Article

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