simona: a comprehensive R package for semantic similarity analysis on bio-ontologies.

Journal: BMC genomics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Bio-ontologies are keys in structuring complex biological information for effective data integration and knowledge representation. Semantic similarity analysis on bio-ontologies quantitatively assesses the degree of similarity between biological concepts based on the semantics encoded in ontologies. It plays an important role in structured and meaningful interpretations and integration of complex data from multiple biological domains.

Authors

  • Zuguang Gu
    Molecular Precision Oncology Program, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany. z.gu@dkfz.de.