Summary of the BioLINK SIG

Summary of the BioLINK SIG 2013 meeting at ISMB/ECCB 2013

UNLABELLED The ISMB Special Interest Group on Linking Literature, Information and Knowledge for Biology (BioLINK) organized a one-day workshop at ISMB/ECCB 2013 in Berlin, Germany. The theme of the workshop was 'Roles for text mining in biomedical knowledge discovery and translational medicine'. This summary reviews the outcomes of the workshop. Meeting themes included concept annotation method...

Overview of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the BioLINK SIG at ISMB: Linking Literature, Information and Knowledge for Biology

The BioLink SIG Workshop at ISMB2004

The Special Interest Group (SIG) on Text Mining (or BioLINK — Biological Literature, Information and Knowledge; http://www.pdg.cnb.uam.es/BioLINK/) was created to address the need for communication and interchange of ideas in the field of text mining and information extraction applied to biology and biomedicine. Information extraction (IE) is an outgrowth of work in automated natural language p...

ISMB 2003 Text Mining SIG Meeting Report

The third meeting of the Special Interest Group (SIG) for Text Mining was held in conjunction with ISMB in Australia this year, following the 2001 meeting in Copenhagen and the 2002 meeting in Edmonton. The Text Mining SIG has been organized by the BioLINK group (http://www.pdg.cnb.uam.es/BioLINK), with its main contributors Lynette Hirschman (MITRE, Bedford, MA, USA) and Alfonso Valencia (CNB,...

BioLINK Special Interest Group Session on the Future of Scientific Publishing

The BioLINK SIG meeting has been regularly held in association with the ISMB conference (Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology—the annual conference of the International Society for Computational Biology) since 2001, focusing on the development and application of resources and tools for biomedical text mining. The SIG (Special Interest Group) is interdisciplinary in nature, and brings toget...