BMC Bioinformatics

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Thesaurus-based disambiguation of gene symbols

Bob JA Schijvenaars1, Barend Mons1, Marc Weeber1, Martijn J Schuemie1, Erik M van Mulligen1, Hester M Wain2 and Jan A Kors1*

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2 HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee, Department of Biology, University College London, Wolfson House, 4 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HE, UK

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BMC Bioinformatics 2005, 6:149 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-6-149

Published: 16 June 2005

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Additional File 1:

This file illustrates the disambiguation process by a specific example.

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