OntoBrowser: a collaborative tool for curation of ontologies by subject matter experts

Carlo Ravagli1, Francois Pognan1, Philippe Marc1

  • 1PreClinical Safety, Translational Sciences, Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, CH-4002, Switzerland.

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