The fast development of next generation sequencing (NGS) has dramatically increased the application of metagenomics in various aspects. Functional annotation is a major step in the metagenomics studies. Fast annotation of functional genes has been a challenge because of the deluge of NGS data and expanding databases. A hybrid annotation pipeline proposed previously for taxonomic assignments was...

Extracting adverse drug events receives much research attention in the biomedical community. Previous work adopts pipeline models, firstly recognizing drug/disease entity mentions and then identifying adverse drug events from drug/disease pairs. In this paper, we investigate joint models for simultaneously extracting drugs, diseases and adverse drug events. Compared with pipeline models, joint ...

The concept of a pipeline has become a quite common way of thinking about the process of visualizing data. In this article we discuss the inherent limits of this concept and argue for the need to expand this concept for achieving higher performance and convenience to the end user. While the traditional model of a visualization pipeline describes the execution of some data flow, it is most suita...

Scientific hype understood as an exaggeration of the significance and/or promise scientific discovery, has been often seen a problem for production science communication, not reception; press releases and traditional media are usually blamed exaggerating claims using click-bait headlines, interest public is background motivator behind hype. The role social in present COVID-19 crisis, however – ...