Using Medians to Generate Consensus Rankings for Biological Data
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Context of the study: Biological databases grow exponentially fast Querying these databases returns thousands of answers Ranking biological data is difficult: annotation files: associated with various degrees of confidence linked by cross-references: play a role in the popularity of the data must take into account the needs expressed by scientists
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