CoCiter: an efficient tool to infer gene function by assessing the significance of literature co-citation.
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SUBMITTER: Qiao N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3781068 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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CoCiter: an efficient tool to infer gene function by assessing the significance of literature co-citation.
Qiao Nan N Huang Yi Y Naveed Hammad H Green Christopher D CD Han Jing-Dong J JD
PloS one 20130923 9
A routine approach to inferring functions for a gene set is by using function enrichment analysis based on GO, KEGG or other curated terms and pathways. However, such analysis requires the existence of overlapping genes between the query gene set and those annotated by GO/KEGG. Furthermore, GO/KEGG databases only maintain a very restricted vocabulary. Here, we have developed a tool called "CoCiter" based on literature co-citations to address the limitations in conventional function enrichment an ...[more]
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