GOSemSim (version 1.28.1)

infoContentMethod: information content based methods

Description

Information Content Based Methods for semantic similarity measuring

Usage

infoContentMethod(ID1, ID2, ont = "DO", method, organism = "human")

Arguments

ID1

Ontology Term

ID2

Ontology Term

ont

Ontology

method

one of "Resnik", "Jiang", "Lin" and "Rel".

organism

one of supported species

Value

semantic similarity score

Details

implemented for methods proposed by Resnik, Jiang, Lin and Schlicker.