Challenges in the construction of knowledge bases for human microbiome-disease associations.

ABSTRACT: The last few years have seen tremendous growth in human microbiome research, with a particular focus on the links to both mental and physical health and disease. Medical and experimental settings provide initial sources of information about these links, but individual studies produce disconnected pieces of knowledge bounded in context by the perspective of expert researchers reading full-text publications. Building a knowledge base (KB) consolidating these disconnected pieces is an essential first step to democratize and accelerate the process of accessing the collective discoveries of human disease connections to the human microbiome. In this article, we survey the existing tools and development efforts that have been produced to capture portions of the information needed to construct a K

SUBMITTER: Badal VD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6728997 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature