The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be
found online at http://genomebiology.com/2005/6/7/224
Text-mining in molecular biology - defined as the automatic extraction of information about
genes, proteins and their functional relationships from text documents - has emerged as a hybrid
discipline on the edges of the fields of information science, bioinformatics and computational
linguistics. A range of text-mining applications have been developed recently that will improve
access to knowledge for biologists and database annotators.
The work of our group was supported by grants from the European
Commission (ORIEL IST-2001-32688, TEMBLOR QLRT-2001-00015,
Biosapiens LSHC-CT-2003-505265).
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