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ReviewComputational and structural biotechnology journal2020

Constructing knowledge graphs and their biomedical applications.

David N Nicholson, Casey S Greene

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Review in Computational and structural biotechnology journal, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 111 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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111 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

David N NicholsonDepartment of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, United States.
Casey S GreeneDepartment of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Childhood Cancer Data Lab, Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, United States.

Funding

Training Program in Computational GenomicsT32HG000046 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI JUNHYONG KIM, Mingyao Li · 1999 to 2026
$9.5M
Network-based algorithms for target identification and drug repositioning from genetic associationsR01HG010067 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI GREENE, CASEY S · 2018 to 2022
$3.2M
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG010067NHGRI NIH HHS T32 HG000046
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Knowledge graphs can support many biomedical applications. These graphs represent biomedical concepts and relationships in the form of nodes and edges. In this review, we discuss how these graphs are constructed and applied with a particular focus on how machine learning approaches are changing these processes. Biomedical knowledge graphs have often been constructed by integrating databases that were populated by experts via manual curation, but we are now seeing a more robust use of automated systems. A number of techniques are used to represent knowledge graphs, but often machine learning methods are used to construct a low-dimensional representation that can support many different applications. This representation is designed to preserve a knowledge graph's local and/or global structure. Additional machine learning methods can be applied to this representation to make predictions within genomic, pharmaceutical, and clinical domains. We frame our discussion first around knowledge graph construction and then around unifying representational learning techniques and unifying applications. Advances in machine learning for biomedicine are creating new opportunities across many domains, and we note potential avenues for future work with knowledge graphs that appear particularly promising.

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knowledge graphsLterature reviewMachine learningNatural language processingNetwork embeddingsText mining

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PMID32637040
PMCPMC7327409

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