How can functional annotations be derived from profiles of phenotypic annotations?
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- 作者：Beatriz Serrano-Solano ; Antonio Díaz Ramos ; Jean-Karim Hériché…
- 关键词：Ontology ; Cellular phenotype ; Biological network ; Cluster analysis
- 刊名：BMC Bioinformatics
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：18
- 期：1
- 全文大小：916KB
- 刊物主题：Bioinformatics; Microarrays; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics; Computer Appl. in Life Sciences; Algorithms;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2105
- 卷排序：18
文摘
BackgroundLoss-of-function phenotypes are widely used to infer gene function using the principle that similar phenotypes are indicative of similar functions. However, converting phenotypic to functional annotations requires careful interpretation of phenotypic descriptions and assessment of phenotypic similarity. Understanding how functions and phenotypes are linked will be crucial for the development of methods for the automatic conversion of gene loss-of-function phenotypes to gene functional annotations.