BIOMINT: Biological text mining

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 02.0126-2

Key words (English)

Life Sciences; Scientific Research

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: QLRI-CT-2002-02770

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 1.1.9 Support for research infrastructures

Short description (English)

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Abstract (English)

Genome research has spawned unprecedented volumes of data, but characterisationof DNA & protein sequences has not kept pace with the rate of data acquisition. To anyone trying to know more about a given sequence, the worldwide collection of abstracts & papers remains the ultimate information source . The goal of the BioMinT project is to develop a generic text mining tool that:
1) interprets di-verse types of query;
2) retrieves relevant documents from the biological litera-ture;
3) extracts the required information;
4) outputs the result as a data-base slot filler or as a structured report. The BioMinT tool will thus operate in two modes. As a curator's assistant, it will be validated on SWISS-PROT & PRINTS;as a researcher's assistant, its reports will be submitted to the scrutiny of bio-logists in academia & industry. The project will be conducted by an inter-disciplinary team from biology. Computational linguistics & data/text mining.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
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CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
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Swiss Project-Number: 02.0126-2