title: QTLMiner: QTL database curation by mining tables in literature.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Figures and tables in biomedical literature record vast amounts of important experiment results. In scientific papers, for example, quantitative trait locus (QTL) information is usually presented in tables. However, most of the popular text-mining methods focus on extracting knowledge from unstructured free text. As far as we know, there are no published works on mining tables in biomedical literature. In this article, we propose a method to extract QTL information from tables and plain text found in literature. Heterogeneous and complex tables were converted into a structured database, combined with information extracted from plain text. Our method could greatly reduce labor burdens involved with database curation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We applied our method on a soybean QTL database curation, from which 2278 records were extracted from 228 papers with a precision rate of 96.9% and a recall rate of 83.3%, F value for the method is 89.6%.
authors.affiliation: College of Electronic and Information, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China, School of Computer Science and Technology, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, China and The Key Lab of Soybean Molecular Design Breeding, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin, China College of Electronic and Information, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China, School of Computer Science and Technology, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, China and The Key Lab of Soybean Molecular Design Breeding, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin, China.
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.affiliation: College of Electronic and Information, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China, School of Computer Science and Technology, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, China and The Key Lab of Soybean Molecular Design Breeding, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin, China.
authors.forename: Xinyi
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.affiliation: College of Electronic and Information, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China, School of Computer Science and Technology, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, China and The Key Lab of Soybean Molecular Design Breeding, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin, China.
authors.forename: Yiming
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: College of Electronic and Information, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China, School of Computer Science and Technology, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, China and The Key Lab of Soybean Molecular Design Breeding, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin, China.
authors.forename: Dongye
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: College of Electronic and Information, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China, School of Computer Science and Technology, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, China and The Key Lab of Soybean Molecular Design Breeding, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin, China.
authors.forename: Baohui
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: College of Electronic and Information, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China, School of Computer Science and Technology, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, China and The Key Lab of Soybean Molecular Design Breeding, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin, China.
authors.forename: Fanjiang
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kong
authors.affiliation: College of Electronic and Information, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China, School of Computer Science and Technology, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, China and The Key Lab of Soybean Molecular Design Breeding, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin, China.
authors.forename: Xiaohui
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yuan
mesh_terms: D057225:Data Mining / Q000379:methods*; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D011642:Publications; D040641:Quantitative Trait Loci; D012984:Software; D013025:Glycine max / Q000235:genetics