Text mining facilitates database curation - extraction of mutation-disease associations from Bio-medical literature

• Published in: BMC bioinformatics Vol. 16; no. 1; p. 185
• Main Authors: Ravikumar, Komandur Elayavilli, Wagholikar, Kavishwar B., Li, Dingcheng, Kocher, Jean-Pierre, Liu, Hongfang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 06.06.2015; BioMed Central
• Subjects: Algorithms; Computational Biology - methods; Data Mining - methods; Databases, Factual; Disease - genetics; Genetic Variation - genetics; High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing; Humans; Medical Subject Headings; Mutation - genetics; Natural Language Processing

Advances in the next generation sequencing technology has accelerated the pace of individualized medicine (IM), which aims to incorporate genetic/genomic information into medicine. One immediate need in interpreting sequencing data is the assembly of information about genetic variants and their corr...