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A literature-based similarity metric for biological processes

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dc.creator Chagoyen, Mónica
dc.creator Carmona-Sáez, Pedro
dc.creator Gil, Concha
dc.creator Carazo, José M.
dc.creator Pascual-Montano, Alberto
dc.date 2007-05-08T14:02:30Z
dc.date 2007-05-08T14:02:30Z
dc.date 2006-07-26
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T00:57:11Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T00:57:11Z
dc.identifier BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7:363
dc.identifier 1471-2105
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/1425
dc.identifier 10.1186/1471-2105-7-363
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/1425
dc.description [Background] Recent analyses in systems biology pursue the discovery of functional modules within the cell. Recognition of such modules requires the integrative analysis of genome-wide experimental data together with available functional schemes. In this line, methods to bridge the gap between the abstract definitions of cellular processes in current schemes and the interlinked nature of biological networks are required.
dc.description [Results] This work explores the use of the scientific literature to establish potential relationships among cellular processes. To this purpose we have used a document based similarity method to compute pair-wise similarities of the biological processes described in the Gene Ontology (GO). The method has been applied to the biological processes annotated for the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome. We compared our results with similarities obtained with two ontology-based metrics, as well as with gene product annotation relationships. We show that the literature-based metric conserves most direct ontological relationships, while reveals biologically sounded similarities that are not obtained using ontology-based metrics and/or genome annotation.
dc.description [Conclusion] The scientific literature is a valuable source of information from which to compute similarities among biological processes. The associations discovered by literature analysis are a valuable complement to those encoded in existing functional schemes, and those that arise by genome annotation. These similarities can be used to conveniently map the interlinked structure of cellular processes in a particular organism.
dc.description Peer reviewed
dc.language eng
dc.publisher BioMed Central
dc.relation Publisher’s version
dc.rights openAccess
dc.title A literature-based similarity metric for biological processes
dc.type Artículo


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