Modern biological research depends on data resources. These resources archive difficult-to-
reproduce data and provide added-value aggregation, curation, and analyses. Collectively …

Background Biology-focused databases and software define bioinformatics and their use is
central to computational biology. In such a complex and dynamic field, it is of interest to …

Life sciences are yielding huge data sets that underpin scientific discoveries fundamental to
improvement in human health, agriculture and the environment. In support of these …

Computer-based resources are central to much, if not most, biological and medical research.
However, while there is an ever expanding choice of bioinformatics resources to use …

Background Publication databases in biomedicine (eg, PubMed, MEDLINE) are growing
rapidly in size every year, as are public databases of experimental biological data and …

High-throughput experiments and bioinformatics techniques are creating an exploding
volume of data that are becoming overwhelming to keep track of for biologists and …

Background Biological data have traditionally been stored and made publicly available
through a variety of on-line databases, whereas biological knowledge has traditionally been …

Motivation: In recent years, the gulf between the mass of accumulating-research data and
the massive literature describing and analyzing those data has widened. The need for …

Although there exist many high-performing text-mining tools to address literature biocuration
(populating biomedical databases from the published literature), the challenge of delivering …

Background Curation of information from bioscience literature into biological knowledge
databases is a crucial way of capturing experimental information in a computable form …