A Framework for BioCuration Workflows (part II)

Abstract

AbstractThis is the second part of the talk ‘A Framework for BioCuration Workflows’, given by Martin Krallinger from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre at the 'Text Mining for the BioCuration Workflow' workshop. The first part was held by Gully APC Burns (USC Information Sciences Institute, USA). This presentation covered some of the main general tasks often shared by existing literature biocuration workflows: Identification of relevant articles, identification and normalization of the actual bio-entities, the extraction of the annotation event and the identification of some evidential support (e.g. experimental evidence). Some of the important aspects, bottlenecks and potential text mining approaches were briefly introduced for each general workflow task. This talk provided a short overview of some of the important aspects to integrate text mining systems into a given biocuration workflow and showed how heterogeneous workflows can be even for a relatively straight forward task such as the identification of curation relevant literature. A more detailed example of the biocuration of protein-protein interactions through the workflow followed by the BioGRID database was presented.