An integrative approach for measuring semantic similarities using gene ontology

BMC Systems Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Peng, Jiajie ^a,b   Li, Hongxiang ^a   Jiang, Qinghua ^a   Wang, Yadong ^a   Chen, Jin ^b,c  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene ontology; Integrative approach; Semantic similarity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEMANTICS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; GENE ONTOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 84961595200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17520509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-0509-8-S5-S8     Document Type: Article

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