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  1. University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

    Robert Stevens

  2. Newcastle University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK

    Phillip Lord

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

    Ling Liu

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

    M. Tamer Özsu

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    Louiqa Raschid

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Stevens, R., Lord, P. (2016). Ontologies and Life Science Data Management. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_631-2

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