On the Use of Gene Ontology Annotations to Assess Functional Similarity among Orthologs and Paralogs: A Short Report.

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Published in PLoS Comput Biol on February 16, 2012

Authors

Paul D Thomas1, Valerie Wood, Christopher J Mungall, Suzanna E Lewis, Judith A Blake, Gene Ontology Consortium

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Bioinformatics, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America. go-discuss@lists.stanford.edu

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