To analyse large corpora using machine learning and other Natural Language Processing
(NLP) algorithms, the corpora need to be standardized. The BioC format is a community …

The accumulation of biological and biomedical literature outpaces the ability of most
researchers and clinicians to stay abreast of their own immediate fields, let alone a broader …

Motivation Biological knowledgebases, such as UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot, constitute an
essential component of daily scientific research by offering distilled, summarized and …

The tremendous growth in biological data has resulted in an increase in the number of
research papers being published. This presents a great challenge for scientists in searching …

Motivation: The exponential growth of scientific literature has resulted in a massive amount
of unstructured natural language data that cannot be directly handled by means of …

Background The biomedical literature continues to grow at a rapid pace, making the
challenge of knowledge retrieval and extraction ever greater. Tools that provide a means to …

Background The rapid evolution of Internet technologies and the collaborative approaches
that dominate the field have stimulated the development of numerous bioinformatics …

Motivation Wikipedia is a vital open educational resource in computational biology. The
quality of computational biology coverage in English-language Wikipedia has improved …

Web services have become a popular means of interconnecting solutions for processing a
body of scientific literature. This has fuelled research on high-level data exchange formats …

MD 21250. tor of the data, have a head start and be more likely to do the better job?
Informatics studies are often highly collaborative. Most likely the best people for such …