Introducing meta-services for biomedical information extraction.
We introduce the first meta-service for information extraction in molecular biology, the BioCreative MetaServer (BCMS; http://bcms.bioinfo.cnio.es/). This prototype platform is a joint effort of 13 research groups and provides automatically generated annotations for PubMed/Medline abstracts. Annotation types cover gene names, gene IDs, species, and protein-protein interactions. The annotations are distributed by the meta-server in both human and machine readable formats (HTML/XML). This service is intended to be used by biomedical researchers and database annotators, and in biomedical language processing. The platform allows direct comparison, unified access, and result aggregation of the annotations.
Leitner
Florian
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Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain. fleitner@cnio.es
Krallinger
Martin
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Rodriguez-Penagos
Carlos
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Hakenberg
Jörg
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Plake
Conrad
C
Kuo
Cheng-Ju
CJ
Hsu
Chun-Nan
CN
Tsai
Richard Tzong-Han
RT
Hung
Hsi-Chuan
HC
Lau
William W
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Johnson
Calvin A
CA
Saetre
Rune
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Yoshida
Kazuhiro
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Chen
Yan Hua
YH
Kim
Sun
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Shin
Soo-Yong
SY
Zhang
Byoung-Tak
BT
Baumgartner
William A
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Hunter
Lawrence
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Haddow
Barry
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Matthews
Michael
M
Wang
Xinglong
X
Ruch
Patrick
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Ehrler
Frédéric
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Ozgür
Arzucan
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Erkan
Güneş
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Radev
Dragomir R
DR
Krauthammer
Michael
M
Luong
ThaiBinh
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Hoffmann
Robert
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Sander
Chris
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Valencia
Alfonso
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D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000379:methods*; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet