Application of Gene Ontology to Gene Identification

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 760, Issue , 2011, Pages 141-157

  Bastos, Hugo P ^a   Tavares, Bruno ^a   Pesquita, Catia ^a   Faria, Daniel ^a   Couto, Francisco M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Gene identification; gene ontology; information content; protein functional annotation; semantic similarity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEOMICS;

DATABASES, PROTEIN; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PROTEOMICS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 79960906222     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-176-5_9     Document Type: Chapter

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