From disease ontology to disease-ontology lite: Statistical methods to adapt a general-purpose ontology for the test of gene-ontology associations

Bioinformatics

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Du, Pan ^a   Feng, Gang ^a   Flatow, Jared ^a   Song, Jie ^b   Holko, Michelle ^c   Kibbe, Warren A ^a   Lin, Simon M ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FUZZY SYSTEM; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INTERNET; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, GENETIC; DISEASE; GENOME; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 66349132579     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp193     Document Type: Conference Paper

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