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ArticleJournal of biomedical semantics2013

Representation of probabilistic scientific knowledge.

Larisa N Soldatova, Andrey Rzhetsky, Kurt De Grave, Ross D King

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Article in Journal of biomedical semantics, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 25% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Larisa N SoldatovaDepartment of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, London, UK. larisa.soldatova@brunel.ac.uk.
Andrey Rzhetsky
Kurt De Grave
Ross D King
Brunel University of London · GBKU Leuven · BEUniversity of Chicago · USUniversity of Manchester · GB

Funding

Computer Systems for Functional Analysis of Genomic DataR01GM061372 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI RZHETSKY, ANDREY · 2001 to 2009
$2.8M
Large-scale Discovery of Scientific Hypotheses; Computation Over Expert OpinionsR01LM010132 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI EVANS, JAMES ALLEN, FOSTER, IAN · 2009 to 2010
$1.2M
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/F008228/1NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM061372NLM NIH HHS R01 LM010132
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The theory of probability is widely used in biomedical research for data analysis and modelling. In previous work the probabilities of the research hypotheses have been recorded as experimental metadata. The ontology HELO is designed to support probabilistic reasoning, and provides semantic descriptors for reporting on research that involves operations with probabilities. HELO explicitly links research statements such as hypotheses, models, laws, conclusions, etc. to the associated probabilities of these statements being true. HELO enables the explicit semantic representation and accurate recording of probabilities in hypotheses, as well as the inference methods used to generate and update those hypotheses. We demonstrate the utility of HELO on three worked examples: changes in the probability of the hypothesis that sirtuins regulate human life span; changes in the probability of hypotheses about gene functions in the S. cerevisiae aromatic amino acid pathway; and the use of active learning in drug design (quantitative structure activity relation learning), where a strategy for the selection of compounds with the highest probability of improving on the best known compound was used. HELO is open source and available at https://github.com/larisa-soldatova/HELO.

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PMID23734675
PMCPMC3632998
OpenAlexW2144593174

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