This paper presents an approach for extracting, integrating and mining the annotations from a large corpus of gene summaries. It includes: i) a method for extracting annotations from several ontologies, mapping them into concepts and evaluating the semantic relatedness of genes, ii) the definition of a NoSQL graph database that leverages a loosely structured and multifaceted organization of data for storing concepts and their relationships, and iii) a mechanism to support the customized exploration of stored information. A prototype with a user-friendly interface fully enables users to visualize all concepts of their interest and to take advantage of their visualization for formulating biomedical hypotheses and discovering new knowledge.

An approach for discovering and exploring semantic relationships between genes

Nicoletta Dessì;PANI, MATTEO;Barbara Pes;Diego Reforgiato Recupero
2017-01-01

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This paper presents an approach for extracting, integrating and mining the annotations from a large corpus of gene summaries. It includes: i) a method for extracting annotations from several ontologies, mapping them into concepts and evaluating the semantic relatedness of genes, ii) the definition of a NoSQL graph database that leverages a loosely structured and multifaceted organization of data for storing concepts and their relationships, and iii) a mechanism to support the customized exploration of stored information. A prototype with a user-friendly interface fully enables users to visualize all concepts of their interest and to take advantage of their visualization for formulating biomedical hypotheses and discovering new knowledge.
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