Taxonomy-based partitioning of the Gene Ontology

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 282-292

  Kuśnierczyk, Wacław ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Annotation; Gene Ontology; Ontology; Ontology alignment; Partitioning; Taxonomy; Taxonomy of species

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; GENES; MICROORGANISMS; SEMANTICS; TAXONOMIES;

GENE ONTOLOGY (GO); ONTOLOGY ALIGNMENT; PARTITIONING; TAXONOMY OF SPECIES;

ONTOLOGY;

GENE PRODUCT;

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETIC DATABASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENTIST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

CLASSIFICATION; DATABASES, PROTEIN; GENES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PROTEOME; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 40049097048     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2007.07.007     Document Type: Article

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