Background: Functional annotation of proteins remains a challenging task. Currently the scientific literature serves as the main source for yet uncurated functional annotations, b...
Background: Our goal in BioCreAtIve has been to assess the state of the art in text mining, with emphasis on applications that reflect real biological applications, e.g., the cura...
Lynette Hirschman, Marc E. Colosimo, Alexander A. ...
Background: The rapid growth of biomedical literature presents challenges for automatic text processing, and one of the challenges is abbreviation identification. The presence of ...
Sunghwan Sohn, Donald C. Comeau, Won Kim, W. John ...
The massive, ever-growing literature in life science makes it increasingly difficult for individuals to grasp all the information relevant to their interests. Since even experts’...
Background: The process of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is believed to be widespread in Bacteria and Archaea, but little comparative data is available addressing its occurrence ...