Linking Human Diseases to Animal Models Using Ontology-Based Phenotype Annotation

A novel method for quantifying the similarity between phenotypes by the use of ontologies can be used to search for candidate genes, pathway members, and human disease models on the basis of phenotypes alone.

• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  PLoS Biology

• Publication date

  2009-11-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000247PMID 19956802PMCID 2774506
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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