Enhancing protein function prediction with taxonomic constraints - The Argot2.5 web server

Methods

Volumn 93, Issue , 2016, Pages 15-23

  Lavezzo, Enrico ^a   Falda, Marco ^a   Fontana, Paolo ^b   Bianco, Luca ^b   Toppo, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automated protein function prediction; Gene Ontology; Semantic similarity; Taxon constraints

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; GENE ONTOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; CLASSIFICATION; FORECASTING; INTERNET; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN DATABASE; WEB BROWSER;

PROTEIN;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, PROTEIN; FORECASTING; GENE ONTOLOGY; INTERNET; PROTEINS; WEB BROWSER;

EID: 84953340826     PISSN: 10462023     EISSN: 10959130     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2015.08.021     Document Type: Article

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