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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Caniza H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4668371 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20151203
We introduce a MeSH-based method that accurately quantifies similarity between heritable diseases at molecular level. This method effectively brings together the existing information about diseases that is scattered across the vast corpus of biomedical literature. We prove that sets of MeSH terms provide a highly descriptive representation of heritable disease and that the structure of MeSH provides a natural way of combining individual MeSH vocabularies. We show that our measure can be used eff ...[more]