DOSim: An R package for similarity between diseases based on Disease Ontology

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The construction of the Disease Ontology (DO) has helped promote the investigation of diseases and disease risk factors. DO enables researchers to analyse disease similarity by adopting semantic similarity measures, and has expanded...

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Main Authors: Li Xiang, Li Chunquan, Zhang Fan, Wu Chao, Liu Tao, Chen Xi, Gong Binsheng, Li Jiang, Rao Shaoqi, Li Xia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2011-06-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/12/266