Finding Our Way through Phenotypes

Imagine if we could compute across phenotype data as easily as genomic data; this article calls for efforts to realize this vision and discusses the potential benefits.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  PLoS Biology

• Publication date

  2015-01-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002033PMID 25562316PMCID 4285398
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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