Automatic extraction of angiogenesis bioprocess from text.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

Understanding key biological processes (bioprocesses) and their relationships with constituent biological entities and pharmaceutical agents is crucial for drug design and discovery. One way to harvest such information is searching the literature. However, bioprocesses are difficult to capture because they may occur in text in a variety of textual expressions. Moreover, a bioprocess is often composed of a series of bioevents, where a bioevent denotes changes to one or a group of cells involved in the bioprocess. Such bioevents are often used to refer to bioprocesses in text, which current techniques, relying solely on specialized lexicons, struggle to find.

Results

This article presents a range of methods for finding bioprocess terms and events. To facilitate the

SUBMITTER: Wang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3179660 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature