Background: Significant parts of biological knowledge are available only as unstructured text in articles of biomedical journals. By automatically identifying gene and gene produc...
The Internet presents numerous sources of useful information--telephone directories, product catalogs, stock quotes, event listings, etc. Recently, many systems have been built th...
This paper describes a novel multi-stage recognition procedure for deducing the spelling and pronunciation of an open set of names. The overall goal is the automatic acquisition o...
Background: Although the UniProt KnowledgeBase is not a medical-oriented database, it contains information on more than 2,000 human proteins involved in pathologies. However, thes...
Given a smooth surface, a blue (red) ridge is a curve such that at each of its points, the maximum (minimum) principal curvature has an extremum along its curvature line. Ridges a...