With the increasing availability of electronic documents and the rapid growth of the World
Wide Web, the task of automatic categorization of documents became the key method for …

One effective way to improve the state of the art is through competitions. Following the
success of the Critical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction (CASP) in bioinformatics …

The volume of published biomedical research, and therefore the underlying biomedical
knowledge base, is expanding at an increasing rate. Among the tools that can aid …

For the average biologist, hands-on literature mining currently means a keyword search in
PubMed. However, methods for extracting biomedical facts from the scientific literature have …

Background The goal of the first BioCreAtIvE challenge (Critical Assessment of Information
Extraction in Biology) was to provide a set of common evaluation tasks to assess the state of …

It is now almost 15 years since the publication of the first paper on text mining in the
genomics domain, and decades since the first paper on text mining in the medical domain …

Background The integration of the rapidly expanding corpus of information about the
genome, transcriptome, and proteome, engendered by powerful technological advances …

Motivation The biomedical community's collective understanding of how chemicals, genes
and phenotypes interact is distributed across the text of over 24 million research articles …

Exponential growth of the peer-reviewed literature and the breakdown of disciplinary
boundaries heralded by genome-scale instruments have made it harder than ever for …

Supplying a comprehensive overview of healthcare analytics research, Healthcare Data
Analytics provides an understanding of the analytical techniques currently available to solve …