MeInfoText: associated gene methylation and cancer information from text mining

Background: DNA methylation is an important epigenetic modification of the genome. Abnormal DNA methylation may result in silencing of tumor suppressor genes and is common in a variety of human cancer cells. As more epigenetics research is published electronically, it is desirable to extract relevant information from biological literature. To facilitate epigenetics research, we have developed a database called MeInfoText to provide gene methylation information from text mining. Description: MeInfoText presents comprehensive association information about gene methylation and cancer, the profile of gene methylation among human cancer types and the gene methylation profile of a specific cancer type, based on association mining from large amounts of literature. In addition, MeInfoText offers integrated protein-protein interaction and biological pathway information collected from the Internet. MeInfoText also provides pathway cluster information regarding to a set of genes which may contri...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: BMCBI
• Authors: Yu-Ching Fang, Hsuan-Cheng Huang, Hsueh-Fen Juan
• Keywords: BMCBI 2008, DNA Methylation, Gene Methylation, Methylation