The language of gene ontology: a Zipf's law analysis

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Kalankesh, Leila R ^a,b   Stevens, Robert ^a   Brass, Andy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE ONTOLOGY; GENE ONTOLOGY ANNOTATIONS; GENOME PROJECTS; INFORMATION CONTENTS; LARGE CORPORA; NATURAL LANGUAGES; POWER LAW EXPONENT; SEQUENCE DATABASE; STATISTICAL POWER; ZIPF'S LAW;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

ARTICLE; GENE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOMICS; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

DATABASES, GENETIC; GENES; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 84861878887     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-13-127     Document Type: Article

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