title: PubTator: a web-based text mining tool for assisting biocuration.
abstract: Manually curating knowledge from biomedical literature into structured databases is highly expensive and time-consuming, making it difficult to keep pace with the rapid growth of the literature. There is therefore a pressing need to assist biocuration with automated text mining tools. Here, we describe PubTator, a web-based system for assisting biocuration. PubTator is different from the few existing tools by featuring a PubMed-like interface, which many biocurators find familiar, and being equipped with multiple challenge-winning text mining algorithms to ensure the quality of its automatic results. Through a formal evaluation with two external user groups, PubTator was shown to be capable of improving both the efficiency and accuracy of manual curation. PubTator is publicly available at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/CBBresearch/Lu/Demo/PubTator/.
authors.affiliation: National Center for Biotechnology Information, US National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA.
authors.forename: Chih-Hsuan
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Hung-Yu
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Kao
authors.forename: Zhiyong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Lu
mesh_terms: D057225:Data Mining / Q000379:methods*; D016208:Databases, Factual; D020407:Internet; D039781:PubMed; D012984:Software