In:
Bioinformatics, Oxford University Press (OUP), Vol. 33, No. 7 ( 2017-04-01), p. 1104-1106
Abstract:
Ontologies are widely used constructs for encoding and analyzing biomedical data, but the absence of simple and consistent tools has made exploratory and systematic analysis of such data unnecessarily difficult. Here we present three packages which aim to simplify such procedures. The ontologyIndex package enables arbitrary ontologies to be read into R, supports representation of ontological objects by native R types, and provides a parsimonius set of performant functions for querying ontologies. ontologySimilarity and ontologyPlot extend ontologyIndex with functionality for straightforward visualization and semantic similarity calculations, including statistical routines. Availability and Implementation ontologyIndex, ontologyPlot and ontologySimilarity are all available on the Comprehensive R Archive Network website under https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1367-4803
,
1367-4811
DOI:
10.1093/bioinformatics/btw763
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Publication Date:
2017
detail.hit.zdb_id:
1468345-3
SSG:
12
