A novel method to measure the semantic similarity of HPO terms

International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 173-188

  Peng, Jiajie ^a   Xue, Hansheng ^b   Shao, Yukai ^b   Shang, Xuequn ^a   Wang, Yadong ^b   Chen, Jin ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causative gene prediction; Disease prediction; Human phenotpe ontology; Noise reduction; Phenotype similarity; Semantic similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019683581     PISSN: 17485673     EISSN: 17485681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJDMB.2017.084268     Document Type: Conference Paper

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