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Book review Artificial Neural Networks in Biomedicine

Since the early 1990s, artificial neural networks play an increasing role in the development of new biomedical systems. In United States, over last decades, the granted biomedical patents that explicitly refer to artificial neural networks in their title, abstract or key references amount to about 50% of the total number of granted biomedical patents with a significant element of computational ...

Book Reviews Text Mining for Biology and Biomedicine

Text mining is defined by Hearst (1999) as the automatic discovery of new, previously unknown information from unstructured textual data. This is often seen as comprising three major tasks: information retrieval (gathering relevant documents), information extraction (extracting information of interest from these documents), and data mining (discovering new associations among the extracted piece...

Tropical Biomedicine

Biomedicine Select

Autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis, are complex disorders characterized by an inflammatory response against the body's own tissues. Recent findings reveal new insights into how these diseases are initiated and progress and the factors that contribute to their clinical symptoms. Such work also pinpoints potential new therapeutic targets including the integra...

Biomedicine Select

This issue’s Biomedicine Select highlights new insights into the role of mitochondria in disease. Several new studies implicate abnormal mitochondria in the destruction of neurons of the substantia nigra, the cause of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Meanwhile, an elegant computational approach has enabled identification of candidate genes for several mitochondrial diseases including the mitochondrial...