Briefings in Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on May 11, 2006
Briefings in Bioinformatics 2006 7(2):207; doi:10.1093/bib/bbl011
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Ontologies for Bioinformatics (Computational Molecular Biology).
Kenneth Baclawski and Tianhua Niu The MIT Press; ISBN: 0-262-02591-4; Hardcover; 440pp; 2005; £29.95.
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As the amount and variety of available knowledge in the biomedical domain grows, we need mechanisms to make our results and conclusions available in an explicit and structured machine-accessible form. Ontologies are viewed as a means to achieve this goal. There is much excitement in the scientific community
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