Evaluating the effect of annotation size on measures of semantic similarity

Journal of Biomedical Semantics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Kulmanov, Maxat ^a   Hoehndorf, Robert ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Gene ontology; Ontology; Semantic similarity

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS;

DISEASE; GENE ONTOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 85013277141     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13326-017-0119-z     Document Type: Article

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