Information content-based gene ontology functional similarity measures: Which one to use for a given biological data type?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES   (South Africa)

^c NONE   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; INFORMATION CONTENT; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEMANTICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN DATABASE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

PROTEIN;

AREA UNDER CURVE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DATABASES, PROTEIN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPS; PROTEINS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 84916199873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113859     Document Type: Article

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