# GOSemSim: GO semantic similarity measurement [](https://bioconductor.org/packages/GOSemSim) [](https://github.com/guangchuangyu/GOSemSim) [](https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/html/GOSemSim.html#since) [](http://www.repostatus.org/#active) [](https://codecov.io/gh/GuangchuangYu/GOSemSim/) [](https://github.com/GuangchuangYu/GOSemSim/commits/master) [](https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/html/GOSemSim.html#archives) [](https://bioconductor.org/checkResults/devel/bioc-LATEST/GOSemSim/) [](https://travis-ci.org/GuangchuangYu/GOSemSim) [](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/GuangchuangYu/GOSemSim) The semantic comparisons of Gene Ontology (GO) annotations provide quantitative ways to compute similarities between genes and gene groups, and have became important basis for many bioinformatics analysis approaches. `GOSemSim` is an R package for semantic similarity computation among GO terms, sets of GO terms, gene products and gene clusters. `GOSemSim` implemented five methods proposed by *Resnik*, *Schlicker*, *Jiang*, *Lin* and *Wang* respectively. For details, please visit our project website, <https://guangchuangyu.github.io/software/GOSemSim>. - [Documentation](https://guangchuangyu.github.io/software/GOSemSim/documentation/) - [Featured Articles](https://guangchuangyu.github.io/software/GOSemSim/featuredArticles/) - [Feedback](https://guangchuangyu.github.io/software/GOSemSim/#feedback) [](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?hashtags=GOSemSim&url=http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/7/976&screen_name=guangchuangyu) [](https://saythanks.io/to/GuangchuangYu) [](https://guangchuangyu.github.io/blog_images/biobabble.jpg) [](https://guangchuangyu.github.io/blog_images/pay_qrcode.png) ----- Please cite the following article when using `GOSemSim`: **Yu G**^†, Li F^†, Qin Y, Bo X^\*, Wu Y and Wang S^\*. GOSemSim: an R package for measuring semantic similarity among GO terms and gene products. ***Bioinformatics***. 2010, 26(7):976-978. [](http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btq064) [](https://www.altmetric.com/details/100979) ----- ## Authors Guangchuang YU <https://guangchuangyu.github.io> School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University ### Citation <img src="https://guangchuangyu.github.io/software/GOSemSim/featured-articles/index_files/figure-html/citation-1.png" width="890"/> ### Download stats [](https://bioconductor.org/packages/stats/bioc/GOSemSim/) [](https://bioconductor.org/packages/stats/bioc/GOSemSim) [](https://bioconductor.org/packages/stats/bioc/GOSemSim) <img src="https://guangchuangyu.github.io/software/GOSemSim/index_files/figure-html/dlstats-1.png" width="890"/>