Introduction to BLAH5 special issue: recent progress on interoperability of biomedical text mining.

Abstract

BLAH is organized annually by the Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS), Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS). The goal of the BLAH series is to enhance the interoperability of resources for biomedical text annotation and mining, which we believe is a key for the next breakthrough of biomedical text mining. This special issue delivers seven application notes and two mini reviews, under the theme, “biomedical text mining.” They are outcomes from the 5th Biomedical Linked Annotation Hackathon (BLAH5), which was held from 12th through 15th February 2019 in Kashiwa, Japan.