BioCompass: A novel functional inference tool that utilizes MeSH hierarchy to analyze groups of genes

In Silico Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 53-61

  Nakazato, Takeru ^a,b,c   Takinaka, Toru ^a   Mizuguchi, Hironori ^a   Matsuda, Hideo ^b   Bono, Hidemasa ^c   Asogawa, Minoru ^a  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gene Ontology; Machine learning; MEDLINE; MeSH terms; Microarray; OMIM; Text mining

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA MINING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MACHINE LEARNING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDLINE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE DATABASE;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENES; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; MEDLINE; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 42549135368     PISSN: 13866338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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