📄 Building a knowledge graph to enable precision medicine

Paper · 2023 · Payal Chandak, Kexin Huang and Marinka Žitnik

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@inproceedings{chandak2023building,
  title = {{Building a knowledge graph to enable precision medicine}},
  author = {Payal Chandak, Kexin Huang and Marinka Žitnik},
  booktitle = {Scientific Data},
  year = {2023},
  doi = {10.1038/s41597-023-01960-3},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01960-3}
}

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