The next generation of similarity measures that fully explore the semantics in biomedical ontologies

Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Couto, Francisco M ^a   Pinto, H Sofia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

description logics; functional similarity; Ontologies; semantic similarity

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ONTOLOGY; BIOLOGY; GENE ONTOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL ONTOLOGIES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE ONTOLOGY; HUMANS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84885216567     PISSN: 02197200     EISSN: 17576334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219720013710017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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