LION LBD: a literature-based discovery system for cancer biology.
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Authors
Pyysalo, Sampo
Ali, Imran
Haselwimmer, Stefan
Shah, Tejas
Guo, Yufan
Högberg, Johan
Stenius, Ulla
Korhonen, Anna-Leena
Publication Date
2019-05-01Journal Title
Bioinformatics
ISSN
1367-4803
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Volume
35
Issue
9
Pages
1553-1561
Language
eng
Type
Article
Physical Medium
Print
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Pyysalo, S., Baker, S., Ali, I., Haselwimmer, S., Shah, T., Young, A., Guo, Y., et al. (2019). LION LBD: a literature-based discovery system for cancer biology.. Bioinformatics, 35 (9), 1553-1561. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bty845
Abstract
MOTIVATION: The overwhelming size and rapid growth of the biomedical literature make it impossible for scientists to read all studies related to their work, potentially leading to missed connections and wasted time and resources. Literature-based discovery (LBD) aims to alleviate these issues by identifying implicit links between disjoint parts of the literature. While LBD has been studied in depth since its introduction three decades ago, there has been limited work making use of recent advances in biomedical text processing methods in LBD. RESULTS: We present LION LBD, a literature-based discovery system that enables researchers to navigate published information and supports hypothesis generation and testing. The system is built with a particular focus on the molecular biology of cancer using state-of-the-art machine learning and natural language processing methods, including named entity recognition and grounding to domain ontologies covering a wide range of entity types and a novel approach to detecting references to the hallmarks of cancer in text. LION LBD implements a broad selection of co-occurrence based metrics for analyzing the strength of entity associations, and its design allows real-time search to discover indirect associations between entities in a database of tens of millions of publications while preserving the ability of users to explore each mention in its original context in the literature. Evaluations of the system demonstrate its ability to identify undiscovered links and rank relevant concepts highly among potential connections. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The LION LBD system is available via a web-based user interface and a programmable API, and all components of the system are made available under open licenses from the project home page http://lbd.lionproject.net. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Keywords
Humans, Neoplasms, Algorithms, Publications, Natural Language Processing, Databases, Factual
Sponsorship
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Core Grant (C14303/A17197)
Funder references
Medical Research Council (MR/M013049/1)
Cancer Research UK (C14303/A17197)
Medical Research Council (MR/R010013/1)
Identifiers
External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bty845
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/285662
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