This is the code that accompanies the article Bayesian Ontology Querying for Accurate and Noise-Tolerant Semantic Searches published in the Bioinformatics journal in 2012.
In order to start the benchmark, invoke the makefile
within the boqa directory via make. You need
Java, Maven, and R for successfully completing the benchmark
process. Look into the code for more details about the
implementation and how to use it in your own research project.
Remember that it also often helps to just read the supplied tests
to understand how to use an API. In particular, the BOQA
implementation is tested in BOQATest class.
The authors of this software have filed a patent on ontology search algorithms for several applications, including the algorithm implemented in this work.
We release the source code under the ClearBSD license. Additional, we grant the usage of the patent for academic purposes that have no commercial interests. Other parties have to contact one of the authors for obtaining permission or a license.