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The Units Ontology: a tool for integrating units of measurement in science.
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation - 1 Jan 2012
Gkoutos Georgios V, Schofield Paul N, Hoehndorf Robert
Abstract excerpt
Units are basic scientific tools that render meaning to numerical data. Their standardization and formalization caters for the report, exchange, process, reproducibility and integration of quantitative measurements. Ontologies are means that facilitate the integration of data and knowledge allowing interoperability and semantic information processing between diverse biomedical resources and domains. Here, we...
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