PESCADOR, a web-based tool to assist text-mining of biointeractions extracted from PubMed queries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Biological function is greatly dependent on the interactions of proteins with other proteins and genes. Abstracts from the biomedical literature stored in the NCBI's PubMed database can be used for the derivation of interactions between genes and proteins by identifying the co-occurrences of their terms. Often, the amount of interactions obtained through such an approach is large and may mix processes occurring in different contexts. Current tools do not allow studying these data with a focus on concepts of relevance to a user, for example, interactions related to a disease or to a biological mechanism such as protein aggregation.

Results

To help the concept-oriented exploration of such data we developed PESCADOR, a web tool that extracts a network of interactions

SUBMITTER: Barbosa-Silva A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3228910 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature