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PolySearch: a web-based text mining system for extracting relationships between human diseases, genes, mutations, drugs and metabolites
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A particular challenge in biomedical text mining is to find ways of handling 'comprehensive' or 'associative' queries such as 'Find all genes associated with breast cancer'. Given that many queries in genomics, proteomics or metabolomics involve these kind of comprehensive searches we believe that a web-based tool that could support these searches would be quite useful. In response to this need, we have developed the PolySearch web server. PolySearch supports >50 different classes of queries against nearly a dozen different types of text, scientific abstract or bioinformatic databases. The typical query supported by PolySearch is 'Given X, find all Y's' where X or Y can be diseases, tissues, cell compartments, gene/protein names, SNPs, mutations, drugs and metabolites. PolySearch also exploits a variety of techniques in text mining and information retrieval to identify, highlight and rank informative abstracts, paragraphs or sentences. PolySearch's performance has been assessed in tasks such as gene synonym identification, protein-protein interaction identification and disease gene identification using a variety of manually assembled 'gold standard' text corpuses. Its f-measure on these tasks is 88, 81 and 79%, respectively. These values are between 5 and 50% better than other published tools. The server is freely available at http://wishart.biology.ualberta.ca/polysearch.
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- Cheng, D., Knox, C., Young, N., Stothard, P., Damaraju, S., & Wishart, D. S.
- Venue
- Nucleic Acids Research
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- Oxford University Press (OUP)
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- 2008-05-19
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- 36
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- W399-W405
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- 0305-1048 (ISSN-L)
- 1362-4962
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- W2031950862
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- 254
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- 7.69
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- en
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