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Abstract Summary: We present a web-based service, SimCT, which allows to graphically display the relationships between biological objects (e.g. genes or proteins) based on their annotations to a biomedical ontology. The result is presented as a tree of these objects, which can be viewed and explored through a specific java applet designed to highlight relevant features. Unlike the numerous tools that search for overrepresented terms, SimCT draws a simplified representation of biological terms present in the set of objects, and can be applied to any ontology for which annotation data is available. Being web-based, it does not require prior installation, and provides an intuitive, easy-to-use service. Availability: http://tagc.univ-mrs.fr/SimCT Contact: carl.herrmann@univmed.fr Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online
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- 2009
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- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 23
- Pages
- 3197-3198
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- 12
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Carl Herrmann,
Sèverine Bérard,
Laurent Tichit
(2009).
SimCT: a generic tool to visualize ontology-based relationships for biological objects.
Bioinformatics
, 25
(23)
, 3197-3198.
https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btp553
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- 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp553