title: Training and evaluation corpora for the extraction of causal relationships encoded in biological expression language (BEL).
abstract: Success in extracting biological relationships is mainly dependent on the complexity of the task as well as the availability of high-quality training data. Here, we describe the new corpora in the systems biology modeling language BEL for training and testing biological relationship extraction systems that we prepared for the BioCreative V BEL track. BEL was designed to capture relationships not only between proteins or chemicals, but also complex events such as biological processes or disease states. A BEL nanopub is the smallest unit of information and represents a biological relationship with its provenance. In BEL relationships (called BEL statements), the entities are normalized to defined namespaces mainly derived from public repositories, such as sequence databases, MeSH or publicly available ontologies. In the BEL nanopubs, the BEL statements are associated with citation information and supportive evidence such as a text excerpt. To enable the training of extraction tools, we prepared BEL resources and made them available to the community. We selected a subset of these resources focusing on a reduced set of namespaces, namely, human and mouse genes, ChEBI chemicals, MeSH diseases and GO biological processes, as well as relationship types 'increases' and 'decreases'. The published training corpus contains 11 000 BEL statements from over 6000 supportive text excerpts. For method evaluation, we selected and re-annotated two smaller subcorpora containing 100 text excerpts. For this re-annotation, the inter-annotator agreement was measured by the BEL track evaluation environment and resulted in a maximal F-score of 91.18% for full statement agreement. In addition, for a set of 100 BEL statements, we do not only provide the gold standard expert annotations, but also text excerpts pre-selected by two automated systems. Those text excerpts were evaluated and manually annotated as true or false supportive in the course of the BioCreative V BEL track task.Database URL: http://wiki.openbel.org/display/BIOC/Datasets.
authors.affiliation: Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing, Schloss Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin, Germany juliane.fluck@scai.fraunhofer.de.
authors.forename: Juliane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fluck
authors.affiliation: Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing, Schloss Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin, Germany.
authors.forename: Sumit
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Madan
authors.affiliation: Philip Morris International R&D, Philip Morris Products S.A, Quai Jeanrenaud 5, Neuchâtel, 2000, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Sam
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ansari
authors.affiliation: Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing, Schloss Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin, Germany.
authors.forename: Alpha T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Kodamullil
authors.affiliation: Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing, Schloss Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin, Germany.
authors.forename: Reagon
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Karki
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Science Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
authors.forename: Majid
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rastegar-Mojarad
authors.affiliation: Selventa, One Alewife Center, Cambridge, MA 02140, USA.
authors.forename: Natalie L
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Catlett
authors.affiliation: Selventa, One Alewife Center, Cambridge, MA 02140, USA.
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hayes
authors.affiliation: Philip Morris International R&D, Philip Morris Products S.A, Quai Jeanrenaud 5, Neuchâtel, 2000, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Justyna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Szostak
authors.affiliation: Philip Morris International R&D, Philip Morris Products S.A, Quai Jeanrenaud 5, Neuchâtel, 2000, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hoeng
authors.affiliation: Philip Morris International R&D, Philip Morris Products S.A, Quai Jeanrenaud 5, Neuchâtel, 2000, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Peitsch
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D066289:Data Curation / Q000379:methods*; D057225:Data Mining / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D009323:Natural Language Processing