Summary: Associations among biological objects such as genes, proteins, and drugs can be discovered automatically from scientific literature. This paper describes ‘TransMiner’ a system for finding interesting associations among objects by mining the Medline database of scientific literature. The direct associations among the objects are discovered based on the principle of cooccurrence from the...

MOTIVATION: It would be useful to be able to retrieve a ranked publication list relevant to topics of interest. METHODOLOGY: This novel approach uses semantics built into the Medical SubHeading (MeSH) hierarchy. A training set of papers is constructed, each annotated with MeSH terms of interest (e.g. Stem Cell or some child in its subtree). Frequencies of nouns are computed, and ratios calculat...

Curated biological knowledge of interactions and pathways is largely available from various databases, and network synthesis is a popular method to gain insight into the data. However, such data from curated databases presents a single view of the knowledge to the biologists, and it may not be suitable to researchers' specific needs. On the other hand, Medline abstracts are publicly accessible ...

BACKGROUND Systematic reviews often investigate the effectiveness of interventions for one sex. However, identifying interventions with data presented according to the sex of study participants can be challenging due to suboptimal indexing in bibliographic databases and poor reporting in titles and abstracts. The purposes of this study were to develop a highly sensitive search filter to identif...

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The National Library of Medicine has developed a system for the automatic extraction of data from scanned journal articles to populate the MEDLINE database. Although the 5-engine OCR system used in this process exhibits good performance overall, it does make errors in character recognition that must be corrected in order for the process to achieve the requisite accuracy. The correction process ...

Materials and methods Literature search involved main databases namely EMBASE, MEDLINE, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Database (CINAHL), Psych INFO and British Nursing Index (BNI) through library online service.