Measuring phenotype-phenotype similarity through the interactome.

Journal: BMC bioinformatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Recently, measuring phenotype similarity began to play an important role in disease diagnosis. Researchers have begun to pay attention to develop phenotype similarity measurement. However, existing methods ignore the interactions between phenotype-associated proteins, which may lead to inaccurate phenotype similarity.

Authors

  • Jiajie Peng
    School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. jiajiepeng@hit.edu.cn.
  • Weiwei Hui
    School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China.
  • Xuequn Shang