DaGO-Fun: Tool for Gene Ontology-based functional analysis using term information content measures

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Mazandu, Gaston K ^a   Mulder, Nicola J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; GENE ONTOLOGY ANNOTATIONS; INFORMATION CONTENT MEASURES; INFORMATION CONTENTS; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY MEASURES;

GENES; PROTEINS;

TOOLS;

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEMANTICS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PROTEINS; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84884505519     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-14-284     Document Type: Article

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