TY - JOUR AU - Tian, Zhen AU - Wang, Chunyu AU - Guo, Maozu AU - Liu, Xiaoyan AU - Teng, Zhixia PY - 2016 DA - 2016/11/04 TI - SGFSC: speeding the gene functional similarity calculation based on hash tables JO - BMC Bioinformatics SP - 445 VL - 17 IS - 1 AB - In recent years, many measures of gene functional similarity have been proposed and widely used in all kinds of essential research. These methods are mainly divided into two categories: pairwise approaches and group-wise approaches. However, a common problem with these methods is their time consumption, especially when measuring the gene functional similarities of a large number of gene pairs. The problem of computational efficiency for pairwise approaches is even more prominent because they are dependent on the combination of semantic similarity. Therefore, the efficient measurement of gene functional similarity remains a challenging problem. SN - 1471-2105 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-016-1294-0 DO - 10.1186/s12859-016-1294-0 ID - Tian2016 ER -