Evaluating the effect of annotation size on measures of semantic similarity

• Published in: Journal of biomedical semantics Vol. 8; no. 1; p. 7
• Main Authors: Kulmanov, Maxat, Hoehndorf, Robert
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central 13.02.2017
• Subjects: Disease - genetics; Gene Ontology; Molecular Sequence Annotation; Protein Interaction Mapping; Semantics; Gene ontology; Ontology; Semantic similarity

Ontologies are widely used as metadata in biological and biomedical datasets. Measures of semantic similarity utilize ontologies to determine how similar two entities annotated with classes from ontologies are, and semantic similarity is increasingly applied in applications ranging from diagnosis of...