Toward a comprehensive drug ontology: extraction of drug-indication relations from diverse information sources.
Journal:
Journal of biomedical semantics
Published Date:
Jan 10, 2017
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Drug ontologies could help pharmaceutical researchers overcome information overload and speed the pace of drug discovery, thus benefiting the industry and patients alike. Drug-disease relations, specifically drug-indication relations, are a prime candidate for representation in ontologies. There is a wealth of available drug-indication information, but structuring and integrating it is challenging.