Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
Jan 1, 2019
Endometriosis is a complex, benign, estrogen-dependent gynecological disorder with an incidence of ~10% women in reproductive age. The implantation and growth of endometrial cells outside the uterus leads to the development of endometriosis. Endometr...
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
Jan 1, 2019
Gastrointestinal (GI) cancer is common, characterized by high mortality, and includes oesophagus, gastric, liver, bile duct, pancreas, rectal and colon cancers. The insufficient specificity and sensitivity of biomarkers is still a key clinical hindra...
MOTIVATION: Modern problems of concept annotation associate an object of interest (gene, individual, text document) with a set of interrelated textual descriptors (functions, diseases, topics), often organized in concept hierarchies or ontologies. Mo...
miRandola (http://mirandola.iit.cnr.it/) is a database of extracellular non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) that was initially published in 2012, foreseeing the relevance of ncRNAs as non-invasive biomarkers. An increasing amount of experimental evidence shows ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2018
Transfer learning is a powerful machine learning technique that enables the internalizing and reuse of prior knowledge to new tasks. Transfer learning is currently the starting point for recognition tasks such as computer vision. However, in natural ...
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
Jan 1, 2018
Mining relations between chemicals and proteins from the biomedical literature is an increasingly important task. The CHEMPROT track at BioCreative VI aims to promote the development and evaluation of systems that can automatically detect the chemica...
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
Jan 1, 2018
The bioCADDIE dataset retrieval challenge brought together different approaches to retrieval of biomedical datasets relevant to a user’s query, expressed as a text description of a needed dataset. We describe experiments in applying a data-driven, ma...
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
Jan 1, 2018
Many life science datasets are now available via Linked Data technologies, meaning that they are represented in a common format (the Resource Description Framework), and are accessible via standard APIs (SPARQL endpoints). While this is an important ...