Nucleic acids research
Jan 8, 2019
Epigenome-Wide Association Study (EWAS) has become increasingly significant in identifying the associations between epigenetic variations and different biological traits. In this study, we develop EWAS Atlas (http://bigd.big.ac.cn/ewas), a curated kn...
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
Jan 1, 2019
Curated databases of scientific literature play an important role in helping researchers find relevant literature, but populating such databases is a labour intensive and time-consuming process. One such database is the freely accessible Comet Core O...
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
Jan 1, 2019
The existence of annotated text corpora is essential for the development of public health services and tools based on natural language processing (NLP) and text mining. Recently organized biomedical NLP shared tasks have provided annotated corpora re...
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
Jan 1, 2019
The Clinical Drug Experience Knowledgebase (CDEK) is a database and web platform of active pharmaceutical ingredients with evidence of clinical testing as well as the organizations involved in their research and development. CDEK was curated by disam...
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...
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
Jul 1, 2018
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...
Nucleic acids research
Jan 4, 2018
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...