Argot2: A large scale function prediction tool relying on semantic similarity of weighted Gene Ontology terms

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 13, Issue SUPPL.4, 2012, Pages

  Falda, Marco ^a   Toppo, Stefano ^a   Pescarolo, Alessandro ^a   Lavezzo, Enrico ^a   Di Camillo, Barbara ^a   Facchinetti, Andrea ^a   Cilia, Elisa ^b   Velasco, Riccardo ^b   Fontana, Paolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS TOOLS; FUNCTION PREDICTION; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENE ONTOLOGY TERMS; GENOME PROJECTS; GO TERMS; HIGH PRECISION; NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING; PROTEIN FUNCTIONS; PROTEIN SEQUENCES; SCALE FUNCTIONS; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; SINGLE SEQUENCES; SMALL DATA SET;

ALGORITHMS; BIOINFORMATICS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

GENES;

PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; LINGUISTICS; MALUS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT GENOME; PROBABILITY; SEMANTICS; VITIS;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENOME, PLANT; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MALUS; MARKOV CHAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PROTEINS; SEMANTICS; VITIS; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 84864928775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-13-S4-S14     Document Type: Article

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