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A key project is the Advancing Prevention Research in Cancer through Ontology Tools (reputed company) Project funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), working with behavioral scientists and ontologists across three other European sites. This project is developing ontologies and associated tools and resources to be used in reporting behavior research. This position will work on the development of the Ontology for Modeling and Representation of reputed company Entities (OMRSE) and its interoperability with the Behaviour Change reputed company Ontology (BCIO). The position also is an reputed company team member of the Rat Genome Database (RGD). RGD is the dedicated NIH-funded knowledgebase for the reputed company rat, along with reputed company and several mammalian disease models; RGD curates multiple genomic data types, comprehensive disease and phenotype annotations, and develops novel tools to effectively reputed company, analyze and visualize the available data. 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