InfAcrOnt: calculating cross-ontology term similarities using information flow by a random walk

Abstract Background Since the establishment of the first biomedical ontology Gene Ontology (GO), the number of biomedical ontology has increased dramatically. Nowadays over 300 ontologies have been built including extensively used Disease Ontology (DO) and Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO). Because of...

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Main Authors: Liang Cheng, Yue Jiang, Hong Ju, Jie Sun, Jiajie Peng, Meng Zhou, Yang Hu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-01-01
Series:BMC Genomics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-017-4338-6