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Title: POSet Ontology Categorizer

Software ·
OSTI ID:1230863

POSet Ontology Categorizer (POSOC) V1.0 The POSet Ontology Categorizer (POSOC) software package provides tools for creating and mining of poset-structured ontologies, such as the Gene Ontology (GO). Given a list of weighted query items (ex.genes,proteins, and/or phrases) and one or more focus nodes, POSOC determines the ordered set of GO nodes that summarize the query, based on selections of a scoring function, pseudo-distance measure, specificity level, and cluster determination. Pseudo-distance measures provided are minimum chain length, maximum chain length, average of extreme chain lengths, and average of all chain lengths. A low specificity level, such as -1 or 0, results in a general set of clusters. Increasing the specificity results in more specific results in more specific and lighter clusters. POSOC cluster results can be compared agaist known results by calculations of precision, recall, and f-score for graph neighborhood relationships. This tool has been used in understanding the function of a set of genes, finding similar genes, and annotating new proteins. The POSOC software consists of a set of Java interfaces, classes, and programs that run on Linux or Windows platforms. It incorporates graph classes from OpenJGraph (openjgraph.sourceforge.net).

Short Name / Acronym:
POSOC; 001923MLTPL00
Site Accession Number:
LA-CC-04-008
Version:
00
Programming Language(s):
Medium: X; OS: Java 1.4; Compatibility: Multiplatform
Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-36
OSTI ID:
1230863
Country of Origin:
United States

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