Efficient access to chemical information contained in scientific literature, patents, technical
reports, or the web is a pressing need shared by researchers and patent attorneys from …

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 …

Pretraining large neural language models, such as BERT, has led to impressive gains on
many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, most pretraining efforts focus on …

Ontologies are widely used in biological and biomedical research. Their success lies in their
combination of four main features present in almost all ontologies: provision of standard …

The automatic recognition of gene names and their associated database identifiers from
biomedical text has been widely studied in recent years, as these tasks play an important …

Background: Epigenetic mechanisms such as altered DNA methylation have been
suggested to play a role in autism, beginning with the classical association of Prader-Willi …

There is a need to consider paternal contributions to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) more
strongly. Autism etiology is complex, and heritability is not explained by genetics alone …

The abundance and unstructured nature of biomedical texts, be it clinical or research
content, impose significant challenges for the effective and efficient use of information and …

Background MeSH indexing is the task of assigning relevant MeSH terms based on a
manual reading of scholarly publications by human indexers. The task is highly important for …

Background Recently, food science has been garnering a lot of attention. There are many
open research questions on food interactions, as one of the main environmental factors, with …