作者: Sherri de Coronado , Margaret W Haber , Nicholas Sioutos , Mark S Tuttle , Lawrence W Wright
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关键词: Cancer research 、 NCI Thesaurus 、 Terminology 、 Computer science 、 Data science 、 Description logic 、 Information system 、 Semantic Web
摘要: Abstract Cancer researchers need to be able organize and report theirresults in a way that others can find, build upon, relate thespecific clinical conditions of individual patients. NCI Thesau-rus ™ is description logic terminology based on current sciencethat helps individuals software applications connect or-ganize the results cancer research, e.g., by disease under-lying biology. Currently containing some 34,000 concepts –covering chemicals, drugs other therapies, diseases, genesand gene products, anatomy, organisms, animal models, tech-niques, biologic processes, administrative categories – NCIThesaurus serves Web from terminologyserver. As scalable, formal terminology, deployed Thesau-rus, associated interfaces, are model forsome standards required for NHII (National Health In-formation Infrastructure) Semantic Web. Keywords: Terminology, Cancer, Research, Information Systems, Descrip-tion Logic, Terminology Server, Modeling.