Investigations on factors influencing HPO-based semantic similarity calculation

Journal of Biomedical Semantics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Peng, Jiajie ^a   Li, Qianqian ^a   Shang, Xuequn ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biological ontology; Human phenotype ontology; Semantic similarity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL ONTOLOGY; BIOLOGY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PROCEDURES; SEMANTICS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ONTOLOGIES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PHENOTYPE; SEMANTICS;

EID: 85029761726     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13326-017-0144-y     Document Type: Article

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