title: Summary of the BioLINK SIG 2013 meeting at ISMB/ECCB 2013.
abstract: The ISMB Special Interest Group on Linking Literature, Information and Knowledge for Biology (BioLINK) organized a one-day workshop at ISMB/ECCB 2013 in Berlin, Germany. The theme of the workshop was 'Roles for text mining in biomedical knowledge discovery and translational medicine'. This summary reviews the outcomes of the workshop. Meeting themes included concept annotation methods and applications, extraction of biological relationships and the use of text-mined data for biological data analysis.
  
  
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authors.affiliation: Department of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA, MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA 01730, USA, Spanish Institute of Bioinformatics, Madrid, Spain and Spanish National Centre for Cancer Research, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Karin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Verspoor
authors.affiliation: Department of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA, MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA 01730, USA, Spanish Institute of Bioinformatics, Madrid, Spain and Spanish National Centre for Cancer Research, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Hagit
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shatkay
authors.affiliation: Department of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA, MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA 01730, USA, Spanish Institute of Bioinformatics, Madrid, Spain and Spanish National Centre for Cancer Research, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Lynette
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hirschman
authors.affiliation: Department of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA, MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA 01730, USA, Spanish Institute of Bioinformatics, Madrid, Spain and Spanish National Centre for Cancer Research, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Blaschke
authors.affiliation: Department of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA, MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA 01730, USA, Spanish Institute of Bioinformatics, Madrid, Spain and Spanish National Centre for Cancer Research, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Alfonso
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Valencia
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D057225:Data Mining; D006801:Humans; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D058028:Research Report