Title
NLProt: extracting protein names and sequences from papers.
Abstract
Automatically extracting protein names from the literature and linking these names to the associated entries in sequence databases is becoming increasingly important for annotating biological databases. NLProt is a novel system that combines dictionary- and rule-based filtering with several support vector machines (SVMs) to tag protein names in PubMed abstracts. When considering partially tagged names as errors, NLProt still reached a precision of 75% at a recall of 76%. By many criteria our system outperformed other tagging methods significantly; in particular, it proved very reliable even for novel names. Names encountered particularly frequently in Drosophila, such as white, wing and bizarre, constitute an obvious limitation of NLProt. Our method is available both as an Internet server and as a program for download (http://cubic.bioc.columbia.edu/services/NLProt/). Input can be PubMed/MEDLINE identifiers, authors, titles and journals, as well as collections of abstracts, or entire papers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1093/nar/gkh427
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Keywords
Field
DocType
nucleic
Information retrieval,Biology,Internet servers,Identifier,Support vector machine,Biological database,Genetics,MEDLINE,The Internet
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
32
SUPnan
0305-1048
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
15
0.76
14
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sven Mika11068.59
Burkhard Rost279588.14