Background: While text-mining and distributed annotation systems both aim at capturing knowledge and presenting it in a standardized form, there have been few attempts to investig...
Currently, most of the discovered biological and biomedical knowledge is available as textual data in scientific papers. And, locating and curating information about a genomic enti...
Background: Advances in biotechnology and in high-throughput methods for gene analysis have contributed to an exponential increase in the number of scientific publications in thes...
When research articles introduce new findings or concepts they typically relate them only to knowledge and domain concepts of immediate relevance. However, many domain concepts re...
One of the most elaborate and important tasks in biology is the functional annotation of genes. Biologists have developed standardized and structured vocabularies, called bio-onto...