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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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    M. Tamer Özsu

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Stevens, R., Lord, P. (2018). Ontologies and Life Science Data Management. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_631

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