A large-scale benchmark of gene prioritization methods

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Guala, Dimitri ^a   Sonnhammer, Erik L L ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOLOGY; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; SOFTWARE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 85038827029     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep46598     Document Type: Article

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