Title
Restructuring the Gene Ontology to emphasise regulative pathways and to improve gene similarity queries.
Abstract
The Gene Ontology (GO) has been developed to provide a structured vocabulary for genes description. Conversely, gene functional similarity measures would benefit from a structure tailored to emphasise genes involved in the same biological context. Therefore, such measures often find it difficult to fully exploit the information in the GO. This paper reorganises the GO to emphasise regulative information thus providing a better structure for functional analysis. A gene functional similarity measure exploiting the new structure is proposed. Empirical evidence shows that the new structure correctly captures regulative processes and that it can be used to support the proposed measure.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1504/IJCBDD.2011.041411
Int. J. Comput. Biol. Drug Des.
Keywords
Field
DocType
computational biology
Gene,Similarity measure,Empirical evidence,Computer science,Gene ontology,Controlled vocabulary,Exploit,Bioinformatics,Goto,Restructuring
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
4
3
1756-0756
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
11
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alessia Visconti182.85
Roberto Esposito223.79
Francesca Cordero36313.42