Improving disease gene prioritization using the semantic similarity of Gene Ontology terms

Bioinformatics

Volumn 27, Issue 13, 2011, Pages i561-i567

  Schlicker, Andreas ^a,b   Lengauer, Thomas ^a   Albrecht, Mario ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^b NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84983120924     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq384     Document Type: Conference Paper

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