The use of semantic similarity measures for optimally integrating heterogeneous Gene Ontology data from large scale annotation pipelines

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Annotation pipeline; Electronic annotation; Functional annotation; Gene ontology annotation; Manual annotation

Indexed keywords

DNA TOPOISOMERASE; SUMO PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE E3; ZINC ION;

ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENE ONTOLOGY ANNOTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY;

EID: 84906247942     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00264     Document Type: Article

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