Ontologies have long been employed in the life sciences to formally represent and reason
over domain knowledge and they are employed in almost every major biological database …

Annotating the functional properties of gene products, ie, RNAs and proteins, is a
fundamental task in biology. The Gene Ontology database (GO) was developed to …

The African continent is regarded as the cradle of modern humans and African genomes
contain more genetic variation than those from any other continent, yet only a fraction of the …

As an effective data representation, storage, management, calculation and model for
analysis, ontology has attracted more and more attention by researchers and it has been …

Measuring the semantic similarity between Gene Ontology (GO) terms is an essential step in
functional bioinformatics research. We implemented a software named GOGO for calculating …

Motivation: Automatically quantifying semantic similarity and relatedness between clinical
terms is an important aspect of text mining from electronic health records, which are …

In biology field, the ontology application relates to a large amount of genetic information and
chemical information of molecular structure, which makes knowledge of ontology concepts …

Gene Ontology (GO) semantic similarity tools enable retrieval of semantic similarity scores,
which incorporate biological knowledge embedded in the GO structure for comparing or …

Abstract Computing Semantic Similarity (SS) between concepts is one of the most critical
issues in many domains such as Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence …

There exists a plethora of measures to evaluate functional similarity (FS) between genes,
which is a widely used in many bioinformatics applications including detecting molecular …