Measuring semantic similarity between Gene Ontology terms

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 137-152

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Gene Ontology; Knowledge manipulation technique; Semantic similarity

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CORRELATION METHODS; DNA SEQUENCES; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; PROTEINS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

BIOINFORMATICS; GENE ONTOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE MANIPULATION TECHNIQUE; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 33847103869     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2006.05.003     Document Type: Article

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