Assessing identity, redundancy and confounds in Gene Ontology annotations over time

Bioinformatics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 476-482

  Gillis, Jesse ^a   Pavlidis, Paul ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DATABASE;

DATABASES, PROTEIN; GENES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874298500     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts727     Document Type: Article

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