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  1. Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    Nigam Shah

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Director, Clinical Programs, CIGNA Healthcare, Bloomfield, Connecticut, USA

    Vipul Kashyap

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Shah, N. (2016). Biomedical Data/Content Acquisition, Curation. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_37-2

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