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. 2019 Mar;12(2):86-90.
doi: 10.1111/cts.12591. Epub 2018 Nov 9.

Toward A Universal Biomedical Data Translator

Toward A Universal Biomedical Data Translator

Biomedical Data Translator Consortium. Clin Transl Sci. 2019 Mar.
No abstract available

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declared no competing interests for this work.

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Figure 1
Conceptual overview of Biomedical Data Translator functionality.
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Figure 2
High‐level overview of prototype Translator system architecture. Abbreviations for Translator APIs: Big CLAM, Big Cell Line Association Miner; BioThings, BioThings Explorer; COHD, Columbia Open Health Data; DDOT, Data‐Driven Ontology Toolkit plus disease ontologies; FA, Fanconi anemia; ginas, global ingredient archival system; ICEES, Integrated Clinical and Environmental Exposures Service; GO, Gene Ontology; MONDO, MONarch Disease Ontology; NDEx, Network Data Exchange; PGMs, probabilistic graphical models; SEES, Socio‐Environmental Exposures Service; SemMedDB, Semantic MEDLINE DataBase. For additional information, including hyperlinks to Translator services, see Table S2.

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