title: OnTheFly: a tool for automated document-based text annotation, data linking and network generation.
abstract: OnTheFly is a web-based application that applies biological named entity recognition to enrich Microsoft Office, PDF and plain text documents. The input files are converted into the HTML format and then sent to the Reflect tagging server, which highlights biological entity names like genes, proteins and chemicals, and attaches to them JavaScript code to invoke a summary pop-up window. The window provides an overview of relevant information about the entity, such as a protein description, the domain composition, a link to the 3D structure and links to other relevant online resources. OnTheFly is also able to extract the bioentities mentioned in a set of files and to produce a graphical representation of the networks of the known and predicted associations of these entities by retrieving the information from the STITCH database.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  http://onthefly.embl.de, http://onthefly.embl.de/FAQ.html.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
authors.affiliation: Structural and Computational Biology Unit, EMBL Meyerhofstrasse 1, Heidelberg, . pavlopou@embl.de
authors.forename: Georgios A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Pavlopoulos
authors.forename: Evangelos
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pafilis
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kuhn
authors.forename: Sean D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Hooper
authors.forename: Reinhard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schneider
mesh_terms: D003628:Database Management Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface