GS2: An efficiently computable measure of GO-based similarity of gene sets

Bioinformatics

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1178-1184

  Ruths, Troy ^a   Ruths, Derek ^a   Nakhleh, Luay ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ZEBRA FISH; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOMICS; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES; GENOMICS; INTERNET; SOFTWARE; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 65449119530     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp128     Document Type: Article

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