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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2025

Lit-OTAR framework for extracting biological evidences from literature.

Santosh Tirunagari, Shyamasree Saha, Aravind Venkatesan, Daniel Suveges, Miguel Carmona, Annalisa Buniello, David Ochoa, Johanna McEntyre, Ellen McDonagh, Melissa Harrison

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Santosh TirunagariLiterature Services Team, European Bioinformatics Institute, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SD, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-9064-1965
Shyamasree SahaLiterature Services Team, European Bioinformatics Institute, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SD, United Kingdom.
Aravind VenkatesanLiterature Services Team, European Bioinformatics Institute, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SD, United Kingdom.
Daniel SuvegesOpen Targets, European Bioinformatics Institute, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SD, United Kingdom.
Miguel CarmonaOpen Targets, European Bioinformatics Institute, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SD, United Kingdom.
Annalisa BunielloOpen Targets, European Bioinformatics Institute, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SD, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-4623-8642
David OchoaOpen Targets, European Bioinformatics Institute, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SD, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-1857-278X
Johanna McEntyreLiterature Services Team, European Bioinformatics Institute, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SD, United Kingdom.
Ellen McDonaghOpen Targets, European Bioinformatics Institute, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SD, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-5806-6174
Melissa HarrisonLiterature Services Team, European Bioinformatics Institute, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SD, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-3523-4408

Funding

European Molecular Biology Laboratory-European Bioinformatics Institute
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

summaryThe lit-OTAR framework, developed through a collaboration between Europe PMC and Open Targets, leverages deep learning to revolutionize drug discovery by extracting evidence from scientific literature for drug target identification and validation. This novel framework combines named entity recognition for identifying gene/protein (target), disease, organism, and chemical/drug within scientific texts, and entity normalization to map these entities to databases like Ensembl, Experimental Factor Ontology, and ChEMBL. Continuously operational, it has processed over 39 million abstracts and 4.5 million full-text articles and preprints to date, identifying more than 48.5 million unique associations that significantly help accelerate the drug discovery process and scientific research >29.9 m distinct target-disease, 11.8 m distinct target-drug, and 8.3 m distinct disease-drug relationships. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The results are accessible through Europe PMC's SciLite web app (https://europepmc.org/) and its annotations API (https://europepmc.org/annotationsapi), as well as via the Open Targets Platform (https://platform.opentargets.org/). The daily pipeline is available at https://github.com/ML4LitS/otar-maintenance, and the Open Targets ETL processes are available at https://github.com/opentargets.

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PMID40097274
PMCPMC11978389

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