Question Answering (QA) systems provide accurate answers to questions; however, they
lack the ability to consolidate data from multiple sources, making it difficult to manage …

Background Gene function annotations, which are associations between a gene and a term
of a controlled vocabulary describing gene functional features, are of paramount importance …

In the computational biology community, machine learning algorithms are key instruments
for many applications, including the prediction of gene-functions based upon the available …

Understanding complex biological phenomena involves answering complex biomedical
questions on multiple biomolecular information simultaneously, which are expressed …

Genes and their protein products are essential molecular units of a living organism. The
knowledge of their functions is key for the understanding of physiological and pathological …

Due to the great advances of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) techniques,
bioinformaticians are faced with large amounts of genomic and clinical data, which are …

Background Increasingly high amounts of heterogeneous and valuable controlled
biomolecular annotations are available, but far from exhaustive and scattered in many …

Gnomic information continues to flood, and this trend comes in the wake of the life sciences'
rapid development. The eventuality has been an increase in the demand for more scalable …

Controlled biomolecular annotations are key concepts in computational genomics and
proteomics, since they can describe the functional features of genes and their products in …

The need for capturing information suitable to the user has favored the development of
Question Answering (QA) systems, whose main goal is retrieving a precise answer to a …