Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
Jan 1, 2018
Biomedical researchers regularly discover new interactions between chemical compounds/drugs and genes/proteins, and report them in research literature. Having knowledge about these interactions is crucially important in many research areas such as pr...
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
Jan 1, 2018
Natural language descriptions of organismal phenotypes, a principal object of study in biology, are abundant in the biological literature. Expressing these phenotypes as logical statements using ontologies would enable large-scale analysis on phenoty...
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
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 ...
International journal of medical informatics
Dec 28, 2017
BACKGROUND: Critical limb ischemia (CLI) is a complication of advanced peripheral artery disease (PAD) with diagnosis based on the presence of clinical signs and symptoms. However, automated identification of cases from electronic health records (EHR...
BACKGROUND: Automatic disease named entity recognition (DNER) is of utmost importance for development of more sophisticated BioNLP tools. However, most conventional CRF based DNER systems rely on well-designed features whose selection is labor intens...
Japanese journal of infectious diseases
Dec 26, 2017
IL28B single nucleotide polymorphism (rs12979860) is an etiology-independent predictor of hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related hepatic fibrosis. Data mining is a method of predictive analysis which can explore tremendous volumes of information from health...
International journal of methods in psychiatric research
Dec 22, 2017
OBJECTIVES: As electronic mental health records become more widely available, several approaches have been suggested to automatically extract information from free-text narrative aiming to support epidemiological research and clinical decision-making...
BACKGROUND: The Experimental Factor Ontology (EFO) is an application ontology driven by experimental variables including cell lines to organize and describe the diverse experimental variables and data resided in the EMBL-EBI resources. The Cell Line ...
Computational intelligence and neuroscience
Dec 21, 2017
With the advent of the -modes algorithm, the toolbox for clustering categorical data has an efficient tool that scales linearly in the number of data items. However, random initialization of cluster centers in -modes makes it hard to reach a good clu...