Constructing lncRNA functional similarity network based on lncRNA-disease associations and disease semantic similarity

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Chen, Xing ^a,b   Clarence Yan, Chenggang ^c   Luo, Cai ^c   Ji, Wen ^d   Zhang, Yongdong ^d   Dai, Qionghai ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MALE;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA, LONG NONCODING;

EID: 84931281632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep11338     Document Type: Article

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