Potential bias in GO::TermFinder

Briefings in Bioinformatics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 289-294

  Flight, Robert M ^a   Wentzell, Peter D ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bias; Enrichment; False discovery rate; Gene ontology; GO::Termfinder

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; RANDOM SAMPLE; SAMPLING ERROR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 65549163570     PISSN: 14675463     EISSN: 14774054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbn054     Document Type: Article

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