Chemical identification and indexing in full-text articles: an overview of the NLM-Chem track at BioCreative VII

ABSTRACT: Abstract The BioCreative National Library of Medicine (NLM)-Chem track calls for a community effort to fine-tune automated recognition of chemical names in the biomedical literature. Chemicals are one of the most searched biomedical entities in PubMed, and—as highlighted during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic—their identification may significantly advance research in multiple biomedical subfields. While previous community challenges focused on identifying chemical names mentioned in titles and abstracts, the full text contains valuable additional detail. We, therefore, organized the BioCreative NLM-Chem track as a community effort to address automated chemical entity recognition in full-text articles. The track consisted of two tasks: (i) chemical identification and (ii) chemical ind

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PROVIDER: S-EPMC9991492 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature