Semantic similarity over the gene ontology: Family correlation and selecting disjunctive ancestors

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 343-344

  Couto, Francisco M ^a   Silva, Mário J ^a   Coutinho, Pedro M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Family Correlation; Gene Ontology; Graph based Similarity Measure

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGICAL DATABASES; DISJUNCTIVE ANCESTORS; GENE ONTOLOGY;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

CORRELATION THEORY;

EID: 33745769598     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1099554.1099658     Document Type: Conference Paper

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