Title
An integrated pharmacokinetics ontology and corpus for text mining.
Abstract
Drug pharmacokinetics parameters, drug interaction parameters, and pharmacogenetics data have been unevenly collected in different databases and published extensively in the literature. Without appropriate pharmacokinetics ontology and a well annotated pharmacokinetics corpus, it will be difficult to develop text mining tools for pharmacokinetics data collection from the literature and pharmacokinetics data integration from multiple databases.A comprehensive pharmacokinetics ontology was constructed. It can annotate all aspects of in vitro pharmacokinetics experiments and in vivo pharmacokinetics studies. It covers all drug metabolism and transportation enzymes. Using our pharmacokinetics ontology, a PK-corpus was constructed to present four classes of pharmacokinetics abstracts: in vivo pharmacokinetics studies, in vivo pharmacogenetic studies, in vivo drug interaction studies, and in vitro drug interaction studies. A novel hierarchical three level annotation scheme was proposed and implemented to tag key terms, drug interaction sentences, and drug interaction pairs. The utility of the pharmacokinetics ontology was demonstrated by annotating three pharmacokinetics studies; and the utility of the PK-corpus was demonstrated by a drug interaction extraction text mining analysis.The pharmacokinetics ontology annotates both in vitro pharmacokinetics experiments and in vivo pharmacokinetics studies. The PK-corpus is a highly valuable resource for the text mining of pharmacokinetics parameters and drug interactions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1186/1471-2105-14-35
BMC Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
bioinformatics,microarrays,algorithms,pharmacokinetics,data mining
Data integration,Ontology,Text mining,Biology,Pharmacokinetics,Bioinformatics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14
1
1471-2105
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
17
0.60
7
Authors
13
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Heng-Yi Wu1324.58
Shreyas D. Karnik2371.55
Abhinita Subhadarshini3371.55
Zhiping Wang41025.30
Santosh Philips5191.02
Xu Han6371.55
Chienwei Chiang7170.60
Lei Liu8170.60
Malaz Boustani9170.94
Luis Mateus Rocha1033336.91
Sara K. Quinney11553.16
David A Flockhart12482.45
Lang Li1311217.66