GO hierarchical network comparison between methods

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Data and experimental methods to support the work in the following paper:

Establishing Consensus Annotation for the Hallmarks of Cancer, 2020, Yi Chen, F.J.Verbeek and K.Wolstencroft, in submission

The hallmarks of cancer provide a highly cited and well-used conceptual framework for describing the processes involved in cancer cell development. However, methods for translating these high-level concepts into data-level associations between hallmarks and genes (for high throughput analysis), vary widely between studies. In this investigation we compare cancer hallmark mapping strategies from different studies, based on Gene Ontology and biological pathway annotation. By analysing the semantic ...

The hallmarks mapping schemes under comparison were developed over the period of 7 years and therefore were developed using different versions of the Gene Ontology and associated annotation. Understanding which differences between mapping schemes were the result of topological or annotation changes to GO could therefore help to further refine consensus and make results and conclusions more comparable between studies.