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175 citations,
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139 citations,
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103 citations,
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87 citations,
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74 citations,
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58 citations,
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23 citations,
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16 citations,
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11 citations,
March 2017 in “Journal of Biomedical Semantics” The Drug Ontology was updated to better classify drugs for hypertension, malaria, and opioid abuse, and to allow for more accurate research queries.
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3 citations,
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1 citations,
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