GRank: a middleware search engine for ranking genes by relevance to given genes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Biologists may need to know the set of genes that are semantically related to a given set of genes. For instance, a biologist may need to know the set of genes related to another set of genes known to be involved in a specific disease. Some works use the concept of gene clustering in order to identify semantically related genes. Others propose tools that return the set of genes that are semantically related to a given set of genes. Most of these gene similarity measures determine the semantic similarities among the genes based solely on the proximity to each other of the GO terms annotating the genes, while overlook the structural dependencies among these GO terms, which may lead to low recall and precision of results.

Results

We propose in this paper a search eng

SUBMITTER: Taha K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3765412 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature