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A Simple Tool to Enrich Clinical Trial Data with Multiontology-Based Conceptual Tags

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Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS 2017)

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The use of ontologies to ease planning and execution of clinical trials and the handling of the resulting data has been proposed in various forms over the past years ranging from dedicated ontologies to ontology-driven software.

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  1. Chair of Methods in Medical Informatics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

    Holger Stenzhorn

  2. Faculty of Medicine, Saarland University, Homburg, Saar, Germany

    Holger Stenzhorn

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  1. Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

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  2. Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

    Cédric Pruski

  3. Université du Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

    Reinhard Schneider

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Stenzhorn, H. (2017). A Simple Tool to Enrich Clinical Trial Data with Multiontology-Based Conceptual Tags. In: Da Silveira, M., Pruski, C., Schneider, R. (eds) Data Integration in the Life Sciences. DILS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10649. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69751-2_2

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