title: MeSH and specialized terminologies: coverage in the field of molecular biology.
abstract: There is real need among researchers for data in molecular biology, due to the explosive development in this field. Information extraction techniques have been developed in this specific domain, to extract structured information from the literature. The National Library of Medicine provides access to 12 million MEDLINE citations, accessible via PubMed. Information retrieval techniques which are used to select documents that are relevant according to user request. As other domains in medicine, biomolecular scientific literature is indexed by MeSH terms. Automatic identification of protein and gene names in scientific articles is an important step in the indexing process, since proteins and genes are often associated with multiple names, and authors alternate between these synonyms. In this article we assess the contribution of specialized terminologies in the field of molecular biology compared to MeSH.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rennes, Rennes, France. vincent.mary@univ-rennes1.fr
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Mary
authors.forename: Gwenaëlle
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Marquet
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Le Beux
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D005796:Genes; D046650:Medical Subject Headings; D008967:Molecular Biology / Q000145:classification*; D011506:Proteins; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D017432:Unified Medical Language System; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins