The gene normalization task in BioCreative III

• Published in: BMC bioinformatics Vol. 12 Suppl 8; no. S8; p. S2
• Main Authors: Lu, Zhiyong, Kao, Hung-Yu, Wei, Chih-Hsuan, Huang, Minlie, Liu, Jingchen, Kuo, Cheng-Ju, Hsu, Chun-Nan, Tsai, Richard Tzong-Han, Dai, Hong-Jie, Okazaki, Naoaki, Cho, Han-Cheol, Gerner, Martin, Solt, Illes, Agarwal, Shashank, Liu, Feifan, Vishnyakova, Dina, Ruch, Patrick, Romacker, Martin, Rinaldi, Fabio, Bhattacharya, Sanmitra, Srinivasan, Padmini, Liu, Hongfang, Torii, Manabu, Matos, Sergio, Campos, David, Verspoor, Karin, Livingston, Kevin M, Wilbur, W John
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central 03.10.2011; BioMed Central Ltd
• Subjects: Academic libraries; Algorithms; Animals; Data Mining - methods; Data Mining - standards; Full text; Genes; Health sciences; Humans; Information science; Labeling; Life sciences; Medicine; National Library of Medicine (U.S.); Periodicals as Topic; Studies; United States

We report the Gene Normalization (GN) challenge in BioCreative III where participating teams were asked to return a ranked list of identifiers of the genes detected in full-text articles. For training, 32 fully and 500 partially annotated articles were prepared. A total of 507 articles were selected...