A new gene ontology-based measure for the functional similarity of gene products

Guo-Long Qi1, Shi-Yu Qian, Ji-Qian Fang

  • 1Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510080, China.

Chinese Medical Journal
|September 17, 2013
PubMed
Abstract

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