[HTML][HTML] Semantic similarity in biomedical ontologies

C Pesquita, D Faria, AO Falcao, P Lord… - PLoS computational …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
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 …

GOSemSim: an R package for measuring semantic similarity among GO terms and gene products

G Yu, F Li, Y Qin, X Bo, Y Wu, S Wang - Bioinformatics, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The semantic comparisons of Gene Ontology (GO) annotations provide quantitative ways to
compute similarities between genes and gene groups, and have became important basis for …

Recent advances in methods of lexical semantic relatedness–a survey

Z Zhang, AL Gentile, F Ciravegna - Natural Language Engineering, 2013 - cambridge.org
Measuring lexical semantic relatedness is an important task in Natural Language
Processing (NLP). It is often a prerequisite to many complex NLP tasks. Despite an …

[HTML][HTML] Metrics for GO based protein semantic similarity: a systematic evaluation

C Pesquita, D Faria, H Bastos, AEN Ferreira… - BMC …, 2008 - Springer
Background Several semantic similarity measures have been applied to gene products
annotated with Gene Ontology terms, providing a basis for their functional comparison …

[HTML][HTML] MultiLoc2: integrating phylogeny and Gene Ontology terms improves subcellular protein localization prediction

T Blum, S Briesemeister, O Kohlbacher - BMC bioinformatics, 2009 - Springer
Background Knowledge of subcellular localization of proteins is crucial to proteomics, drug
target discovery and systems biology since localization and biological function are highly …

[HTML][HTML] An improved method for scoring protein-protein interactions using semantic similarity within the gene ontology

S Jain, GD Bader - BMC bioinformatics, 2010 - Springer
Background Semantic similarity measures are useful to assess the physiological relevance
of protein-protein interactions (PPIs). They quantify similarity between proteins based on …

Going from where to why—interpretable prediction of protein subcellular localization

S Briesemeister, J Rahnenführer, O Kohlbacher - Bioinformatics, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Protein subcellular localization is pivotal in understanding a protein's function.
Computational prediction of subcellular localization has become a viable alternative to …

GOASVM: a subcellular location predictor by incorporating term-frequency gene ontology into the general form of Chou's pseudo-amino acid composition

S Wan, MW Mak, SY Kung - Journal of theoretical biology, 2013 - Elsevier
Prediction of protein subcellular localization is an important yet challenging problem.
Recently, several computational methods based on Gene Ontology (GO) have been …

Gene ontology semantic similarity tools: survey on features and challenges for biological knowledge discovery

GK Mazandu, ER Chimusa… - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Gene Ontology (GO) semantic similarity tools enable retrieval of semantic similarity scores,
which incorporate biological knowledge embedded in the GO structure for comparing or …

SherLoc2: a high-accuracy hybrid method for predicting subcellular localization of proteins

S Briesemeister, T Blum, S Brady, Y Lam… - Journal of proteome …, 2009 - ACS Publications
SherLoc2 is a comprehensive high-accuracy subcellular localization prediction system. It is
applicable to animal, fungal, and plant proteins and covers all main eukaryotic subcellular …