Improving GO semantic similarity measures by exploring the ontology beneath the terms and modelling uncertainty

Bioinformatics

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1383-1389

  Yang, Haixuan ^a   Nepusz, Tamás ^a   Paccanaro, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; GENETICS; LINGUISTICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NOMENCLATURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEMANTICS; UNCERTAINTY;

ALGORITHMS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; UNCERTAINTY; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 84861118865     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts129     Document Type: Article

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