Semantic similarity in biomedical ontologies.

In recent years, ontologies have become a mainstream topic in biomedical research. When biological entities are described using a common schema, such as an ontology, they can be compared by means of their annotations. This type of comparison is called semantic similarity, since it assesses the degre...

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Main Authors: Catia Pesquita, Daniel Faria, André O Falcão, Phillip Lord, Francisco M Couto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-07-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/19649320/pdf/?tool=EBI