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ArticleComputational and structural biotechnology journal2024

BioTextQuest v2.0: An evolved tool for biomedical literature mining and concept discovery.

Theodosios Theodosiou, Konstantinos Vrettos, Ismini Baltsavia, Fotis Baltoumas, Nikolas Papanikolaou, Andreas Ν Antonakis, Dimitrios Mossialos, Christos A Ouzounis, Vasilis J Promponas, Makrina Karaglani and 5 more

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Article in Computational and structural biotechnology journal, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Theodosios TheodosiouDivision of Basic Sciences, University of Crete Medical School, Heraklion 71110, Greece.
Konstantinos VrettosDivision of Basic Sciences, University of Crete Medical School, Heraklion 71110, Greece.
Ismini BaltsaviaDivision of Basic Sciences, University of Crete Medical School, Heraklion 71110, Greece.
Fotis BaltoumasInstitute for Fundamental Biomedical Research, BSRC "Alexander Fleming", Vari, Athens 16672, Greece.
Nikolas PapanikolaouDivision of Basic Sciences, University of Crete Medical School, Heraklion 71110, Greece.
Andreas Ν AntonakisDivision of Basic Sciences, University of Crete Medical School, Heraklion 71110, Greece.
Dimitrios MossialosDepartment of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Thessaly, 41500 Larissa, Greece.
Christos A OuzounisBiological Computation & Computational Biology Group, AIIA Lab, School of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessalonica, 57001 Thessalonica, Greece.
Vasilis J PromponasBioinformatics Research Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cyprus, Nicosia 1678, Cyprus.
Makrina KaraglaniMedical School, Democritus University of Thrace, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece.
Ekaterini ChatzakiMedical School, Democritus University of Thrace, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece.
Sven BrandauExperimental and Translational Research, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.
Georgios A PavlopoulosInstitute for Fundamental Biomedical Research, BSRC "Alexander Fleming", Vari, Athens 16672, Greece.
Evangelos AndreakosCenter for Immunology and Transplantation, Biomedical Research Foundation Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Ioannis IliopoulosDivision of Basic Sciences, University of Crete Medical School, Heraklion 71110, Greece.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The process of navigating through the landscape of biomedical literature and performing searches or combining them with bioinformatics analyses can be daunting, considering the exponential growth of scientific corpora and the plethora of tools designed to mine PubMed(®) and related repositories. Herein, we present BioTextQuest v2.0, a tool for biomedical literature mining. BioTextQuest v2.0 is an open-source online web portal for document clustering based on sets of selected biomedical terms, offering efficient management of information derived from PubMed abstracts. Employing established machine learning algorithms, the tool facilitates document clustering while allowing users to customize the analysis by selecting terms of interest. BioTextQuest v2.0 streamlines the process of uncovering valuable insights from biomedical research articles, serving as an agent that connects the identification of key terms like genes/proteins, diseases, chemicals, Gene Ontology (GO) terms, functions, and others through named entity recognition, and their application in biological research. Instead of manually sifting through articles, researchers can enter their PubMed-like query and receive extracted information in two user-friendly formats, tables and word clouds, simplifying the comprehension of key findings. The latest update of BioTextQuest leverages the EXTRACT named entity recognition tagger, enhancing its ability to pinpoint various biological entities within text. BioTextQuest v2.0 acts as a research assistant, significantly reducing the time and effort required for researchers to identify and present relevant information from the biomedical literature.

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Biomedical literature miningConcept discovery

Identifiers

PMID39279874
PMCPMC11399685

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