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Nevertheless, this assumption only holds for terms representing functional groups with biological significance (\u2018classes\u2019), and not for the ones representing human-imposed aggregations or conceptualizations lacking a biological rationale (\u2018categories\u2019).<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: Using a data-driven approach based on a set of high-quality functional associations, we quantify the functional coherence of GO biological process (GO:BP) terms as well as their explicit and implicit relationships, trying to distinguish classes and categories. We show that the quantification used is in agreement with the distinction one would intuitively make between these two concepts. As not all GO:BP terms and relationships are equally supported by current functional associations, any detailed validation of new experimental data using GO:BP, beyond whole-system statistics, should take such unbalance into account.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0pazos@cnb.csic.es<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btp663","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,12,5]],"date-time":"2009-12-05T02:17:54Z","timestamp":1259979474000},"page":"378-384","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":30,"title":["Quantifying the biological significance of gene ontology biological processes\u2014implications for the analysis of systems-wide data"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"26","author":[{"given":"Monica","family":"Chagoyen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Computational Systems Biology Group, National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), C\/ Darwin 3, 28049 Madrid, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Florencio","family":"Pazos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Computational Systems Biology Group, National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), C\/ Darwin 3, 28049 Madrid, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2009,12,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023012511000411700_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"25","DOI":"10.1038\/75556","article-title":"Gene ontology: tool for the unification of biology. 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