Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
Jan 1, 2018
The precision medicine (PM) initiative promises to identify individualized treatment depending on a patients' genetic profile and their related responses. In order to help health professionals and researchers in the PM endeavor, BioCreative VI organi...
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
Jan 1, 2018
PubMed, a repository and search engine for biomedical literature, now indexes >1 million articles each year. This exceeds the processing capacity of human domain experts, limiting our ability to truly understand many diseases. We present Reach, a sys...
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
Jan 1, 2018
The BioCreative VI Track IV (mining protein interactions and mutations for precision medicine) challenge was organized in 2017 with the goal of applying biomedical text mining methods to support advancements in precision medicine approaches. As part ...
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
Jan 1, 2018
In the era of data explosion, the increasing frequency of published articles presents unorthodox challenges to fulfill specific curation requirements for bio-literature databases. Recognizing these demands, we designed a document triage system with a...
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
Jan 1, 2018
We present a system for automatically identifying a multitude of biomedical entities from the literature. This work is based on our previous efforts in the BioCreative VI: Interactive Bio-ID Assignment shared task in which our system demonstrated sta...
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
Jan 1, 2018
Efficient extraction of knowledge from biological data requires the development of structured vocabularies to unambiguously define biological terms. This paper proposes descriptions and definitions to disambiguate the term 'single-exon gene'. Eukaryo...
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
Jan 1, 2018
In this paper, we describe a hierarchical bi-directional attention-based Re-current Neural Network (RNN) as a reusable sequence encoder architecture, which is used as sentence and document encoder for document classification. The sequence encoder is ...
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
Jan 1, 2018
Transposable elements (TEs) play an essential role in the genetic variability of eukaryotic species. In plants, they may comprise up to 90% of the total genome. Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) are known to control gene expression and regulation. Although th...
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
Jan 10, 2017
Information regarding the physical interactions among proteins is crucial, since protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are central for many biological processes. The experimental techniques used to verify PPIs are vital for characterizing and assessing...
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
Dec 26, 2016
We previously reported a paradigm for large-scale phylogenomic analysis of gene families that takes advantage of the large corpus of experimentally supported Gene Ontology (GO) annotations. This 'GO Phylogenetic Annotation' approach integrates GO ann...