Structure-centered portal for child psychiatry research.
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SUBMITTER: Rane P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4012203 | biostudies-literature | 2014
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Structure-centered portal for child psychiatry research.
Rane Pallavi P Haselgrove Christian C Hodge Steven M SM Frazier Jean A JA Kennedy David N DN
Frontiers in neuroinformatics 20140430
The real world needs of the clinical community require a domain-specific solution to integrate disparate information available from various web-based resources for data, materials, and tools into routine clinical and clinical research setting. We present a child-psychiatry oriented portal as an effort to deliver a knowledge environment wrapper that provides organization and integration of multiple information and data sources. Organized semantically by resource context, the portal groups informa ...[more]
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