Putting Biomedical Ontologies to Work
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Putting biomedical ontologies to work.
OBJECTIVES Biomedical ontologies exist to serve integration of clinical and experimental data, and it is critical to their success that they be put to widespread use in the annotation of data. How, then, can ontologies achieve the sort of user-friendliness, reliability, cost-effectiveness, and breadth of coverage that is necessary to ensure extensive usage? METHODS Our focus here is on two di...
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عنوان ژورنال: Methods of Information in Medicine
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0026-1270,2511-705X
DOI: 10.3414/me9302