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Calculate the Wang similarity for specific terms

rs_onto_sim_wang.Rd

[Experimental] This function calculates the Wang similarities between all unique pairs of a given set of terms. Terms not found in the ontology get NaN.

Usage

rs_onto_sim_wang(terms, parents, children, w)

Arguments

terms

String vector. The terms you wish to calculate the similarities for.

parents

String vector. The names of the parents.

children

String vector. The names of the children. The length of parents needs to be equal to children.

w

Numerics. The weights between the parents and children. Need to be values between 0 and 1.

Value

A list with:

  • term1 - name of the first term.

  • term2 - name of the second term.

  • sims - similarity between the two terms.