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Using random forests for assistance in the curation of G-protein coupled receptor databases [PDF]

, 2017
Background: Biology is experiencing a gradual but fast transformation from a laboratory-centred science towards a data-centred one. As such, it requires robust data engineering and the use of quantitative data analysis methods as part of database ...
Shkurin, Aleksei, Vellido Alcacena, Alfredo   +1 more
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Marky: a lightweight web tracking tool for document annotation [PDF]

, 2014
Document annotation is an elementary task in the development of Text Mining applications, notably in defining the entities and relationships that are relevant to a given domain. Many annotation software tools have been implemented. Some are particular to
D. Ferrucci, D. Salgado, K. Bontcheva, P. Thompson, Y. Kano   +4 more
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Genomic repeats, misassembly and reannotation: a case study with long-read resequencing of Porphyromonas gingivalis reference strains

BMC Genomics, 2018
Background Without knowledge of their genomic sequences, it is impossible to make functional models of the bacteria that make up human and animal microbiota.
Luis Acuña-Amador, Aline Primot, Edouard Cadieu, Alain Roulet, Frédérique Barloy-Hubler   +4 more
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Towards BioDBcore: a community-defined information specification for biological databases [PDF]

, 2017
The present article proposes the adoption of a community-defined, uniform, generic description of the core attributes of biological databases, BioDBCore.
Attwood, Teresa K., Bairoch, Amos, Bateman, Alex, Blake, Judith A., Bult, Carol J., Cherry, J. Michael, Chisholm, Rex L., Cochrane, Guy, Cook, Charles E., Eppig, Janan T., Field, Dawn, Galperin, Michael Y., Gaudet, Pascale, Gentleman, Robert, Goble, Carole A., Gojobori, Takashi, Hancock, John M., Howe, Douglas G., Imanishi, Tadashi, Kelso, Janet, Landsman, David, Lewis, Suzanna E., Mizrachi, Ilene Karsch, Orchard, Sandra, Ouellette, B. F. Francis, Ranganathan, Shoba, Richardson, Lorna, Rocca-Serra, Philippe, Sansone, Susanna-Assunta, Schofield, Paul N., Smedley, Damian, Southan, Christopher, Tan, Tin Wee, Tatusova, Tatiana, Taylor, Chris, Whetzel, Patricia L., White, Owen, Yamasaki, Chisato   +37 more
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Quantification and expert evaluation of evidence for chemopredictive biomarkers to personalize cancer treatment. [PDF]

, 2017
Predictive biomarkers have the potential to facilitate cancer precision medicine by guiding the optimal choice of therapies for patients. However, clinicians are faced with an enormous volume of often-contradictory evidence regarding the therapeutic ...
Beckman, Robert A., Boca, Simina M., Brody, Jonathan R., Madhavan, Subha, Marshall, John L., Pishvaian, Michael J., Rao, Shruti, Riazi, Shahla, Yabar, Cinthya S.   +8 more
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Knowledge engineering tools for reasoning with scientific observations and interpretations: a neural connectivity use case

BMC Bioinformatics, 2011
Background We address the goal of curating observations from published experiments in a generalizable form; reasoning over these observations to generate interpretations and then querying this interpreted knowledge to supply the supporting evidence.
Bota Mihail, Hovy Eduard H, Ramakrishnan Cartic, Russ Thomas A, Burns Gully APC   +4 more
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Textpresso Central: a customizable platform for searching, text mining, viewing, and curating biomedical literature

BMC Bioinformatics, 2018
Background The biomedical literature continues to grow at a rapid pace, making the challenge of knowledge retrieval and extraction ever greater. Tools that provide a means to search and mine the full text of literature thus represent an important way by ...
H.-M. Müller, K. M. Van Auken, Y. Li, P. W. Sternberg   +3 more
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The GOBLET training portal: a global repository of bioinformatics training materials, courses and trainers [PDF]

, 2017
Summary: Rapid technological advances have led to an explosion of biomedical data in recent years. The pace of change has inspired new collaborative approaches for sharing materials and resources to help train life scientists both in the use of cutting ...
Attwood, Teresa K., Bongcam-Rudloff, Erik, Brazas, Michelle D., Budd, Aidan, Corpas, Manuel, Fernandes, Pedro L., Gaeta, Bruno, Jimenez, Rafael C., Korpelainen, Eija, Lewitter, Fran, MacLean, Daniel, McGrath, Annette, Palagi, Patricia M., Rother, Kristian, Schneider, Maria Victoria, Taylor, Jan, van Gelder, Celia, Via, Allegra, Watson, Mick   +18 more
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Help biocurators to maximize the reach of your data

PLOS Biology
Curated scientific databases catalogue and amplify research findings to maximize their reach. Authors should write their papers with this in mind, ensuring that data are accurate, easy to extract, and presented in standardized formats.
Alexander Holmes, Denise Carvalho-Silva, Zbyslaw Sondka, Madiha Ahmed, Joanna Argasinska, Rachel Lyne, Amaia Sangrador-Vegas, Sari Ward   +7 more
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Dynamic Retrieval Augmented Generation of Ontologies using Artificial Intelligence (DRAGON-AI)

Journal of Biomedical Semantics
Background Ontologies are fundamental components of informatics infrastructure in domains such as biomedical, environmental, and food sciences, representing consensus knowledge in an accurate and computable form.
Sabrina Toro, Anna V. Anagnostopoulos, Susan M. Bello, Kai Blumberg, Rhiannon Cameron, Leigh Carmody, Alexander D. Diehl, Damion M. Dooley, William D. Duncan, Petra Fey, Pascale Gaudet, Nomi L. Harris, Marcin P. Joachimiak, Leila Kiani, Tiago Lubiana, Monica C. Munoz-Torres, Shawn O‘Neil, David Osumi-Sutherland, Aleix Puig-Barbe, Justin T. Reese, Leonore Reiser, Sofia MC. Robb, Troy Ruemping, James Seager, Eric Sid, Ray Stefancsik, Magalie Weber, Valerie Wood, Melissa A. Haendel, Christopher J. Mungall   +29 more
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