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标题：Biocuration workflows and text mining: overview of the BioCreative 2012 Workshop Track II
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作者：Lu, Zhiyong ; Hirschman, Lynette
期刊名称：Database
印刷版ISSN：1758-0463
电子版ISSN：1758-0463
出版年度：2012
卷号：2012
DOI：10.1093/database/bas043
出版社：Oxford University Press
摘要：Manual curation of data from the biomedical literature is a rate-limiting factor for many expert curated databases. Despite the continuing advances in biomedical text mining and the pressing needs of biocurators for better tools, few existing text-mining tools have been successfully integrated into production literature curation systems such as those used by the expert curated databases. To close this gap and better understand all aspects of literature curation, we invited submissions of written descriptions of curation workflows from expert curated databases for the BioCreative 2012 Workshop Track II. We received seven qualified contributions, primarily from model organism databases. Based on these descriptions, we identified commonalities and differences across the workflows, the common ontologies and controlled vocabularies used and the current and desired uses of text mining for biocuration. Compared to a survey done in 2009, our 2012 results show that many more databases are now using text mining in parts of their curation workflows. In addition, the workshop participants identified text-mining aids for finding gene names and symbols (gene indexing), prioritization of documents for curation (document triage) and ontology concept assignment as those most desired by the biocurators.Database URL: http://www.biocreative.org/tasks/bc-workshop-2012/workflow/