Incorporating semantic similarity measure in genetic algorithm: an approach for searching the gene ontology terms

The most important property of the Gene Ontology is the terms. These control vocabularies are defined to provide consistent descriptions of gene products that are shareable and computationally accessible by humans, software agent, or other machine-readable meta-data. Each term is associated with i...

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Main Authors: M. Othman, Razib, Deris, Safaai, M. Ilias, Rosli, Alashwal, Hany Taher Ahmed, Hassan, Rohayanti, Mohamed, Farhan
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author M. Othman, Razib
Deris, Safaai
M. Ilias, Rosli
Alashwal, Hany Taher Ahmed
Hassan, Rohayanti
Mohamed, Farhan
author_facet M. Othman, Razib
Deris, Safaai
M. Ilias, Rosli
Alashwal, Hany Taher Ahmed
Hassan, Rohayanti
Mohamed, Farhan
author_sort M. Othman, Razib
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description The most important property of the Gene Ontology is the terms. These control vocabularies are defined to provide consistent descriptions of gene products that are shareable and computationally accessible by humans, software agent, or other machine-readable meta-data. Each term is associated with information such as definition, synonyms, database references, amino acid sequences, and relationships to other terms. This information has made the Gene Ontology broadly applied in microarray and proteomic analysis. However, the process of searching the terms is still carried out using traditional approach which is based on keyword matching. The weaknesses of this approach are: ignoring semantic relationships between terms, and highly depending on a specialist to find similar terms. Therefore, this study combines semantic similarity measure and genetic algorithm to perform a better retrieval process for searching semantically similar terms. The semantic similarity measure is used to compute similitude strength between two terms.Then, the genetic algorithm is employed to perform batch retrievals and to handle the situation of the large search space of the Gene Ontology graph. The computational results are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.
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spelling utm-84322010-06-02T01:55:09Z http://eprints.utm.my/8432/ Incorporating semantic similarity measure in genetic algorithm: an approach for searching the gene ontology terms M. Othman, Razib Deris, Safaai M. Ilias, Rosli Alashwal, Hany Taher Ahmed Hassan, Rohayanti Mohamed, Farhan QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science The most important property of the Gene Ontology is the terms. These control vocabularies are defined to provide consistent descriptions of gene products that are shareable and computationally accessible by humans, software agent, or other machine-readable meta-data. Each term is associated with information such as definition, synonyms, database references, amino acid sequences, and relationships to other terms. This information has made the Gene Ontology broadly applied in microarray and proteomic analysis. However, the process of searching the terms is still carried out using traditional approach which is based on keyword matching. The weaknesses of this approach are: ignoring semantic relationships between terms, and highly depending on a specialist to find similar terms. Therefore, this study combines semantic similarity measure and genetic algorithm to perform a better retrieval process for searching semantically similar terms. The semantic similarity measure is used to compute similitude strength between two terms.Then, the genetic algorithm is employed to perform batch retrievals and to handle the situation of the large search space of the Gene Ontology graph. The computational results are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology 2007 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/8432/1/RMOthman2007-Incorporating_Semantic_Similarity_Measure_In.pdf M. Othman, Razib and Deris, Safaai and M. Ilias, Rosli and Alashwal, Hany Taher Ahmed and Hassan, Rohayanti and Mohamed, Farhan (2007) Incorporating semantic similarity measure in genetic algorithm: an approach for searching the gene ontology terms. International Journal of Computational Intelligence, 3 (3). pp. 257-266. ISSN 2070-3821 http://www.waset.org/ijci/
spellingShingle QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
M. Othman, Razib
Deris, Safaai
M. Ilias, Rosli
Alashwal, Hany Taher Ahmed
Hassan, Rohayanti
Mohamed, Farhan
Incorporating semantic similarity measure in genetic algorithm: an approach for searching the gene ontology terms
title Incorporating semantic similarity measure in genetic algorithm: an approach for searching the gene ontology terms
title_full Incorporating semantic similarity measure in genetic algorithm: an approach for searching the gene ontology terms
title_fullStr Incorporating semantic similarity measure in genetic algorithm: an approach for searching the gene ontology terms
title_full_unstemmed Incorporating semantic similarity measure in genetic algorithm: an approach for searching the gene ontology terms
title_short Incorporating semantic similarity measure in genetic algorithm: an approach for searching the gene ontology terms
title_sort incorporating semantic similarity measure in genetic algorithm: an approach for searching the gene ontology terms
topic QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
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