Deep neural networks and distant supervision for geographic location mention extraction

A Magge, D Weissenbacher, A Sarker, M Scotch… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Virus phylogeographers rely on DNA sequences of viruses and the locations of
the infected hosts found in public sequence databases like GenBank for modeling virus …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing information congruence of documented cardiovascular disease between electronic dental and medical records

J Patel, D Mowery, A Krishnan… - AMIA Annual …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Dentists are more often treating patients with Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD) in their clinics;
therefore, dentists may need to alter treatment plans in the presence of CVD. However, it's …

Knowledge-driven geospatial location resolution for phylogeographic models of virus migration

D Weissenbacher, T Tahsin, R Beard, M Figaro… - …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Diseases caused by zoonotic viruses (viruses transmittable between humans and animals)
are a major threat to public health throughout the world. By studying virus migration and …

A high-precision rule-based extraction system for expanding geospatial metadata in GenBank records

T Tahsin, D Weissenbacher, R Rivera… - Journal of the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Objective The metadata reflecting the location of the infected host (LOIH) of virus sequences
in GenBank often lacks specificity. This work seeks to enhance this metadata by extracting …

Incorporating sampling uncertainty in the geospatial assignment of taxa for virus phylogeography

M Scotch, T Tahsin, D Weissenbacher… - Virus …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Discrete phylogeography using software such as BEAST considers the sampling location of
each taxon as fixed; often to a single location without uncertainty. When studying viruses …

Phylodynamics of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza in Europe, 2005–2010: potential for molecular surveillance of new outbreaks

MA Alkhamis, BR Moore, AM Perez - Viruses, 2015 - mdpi.com
Previous Bayesian phylogeographic studies of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza
viruses (HPAIVs) explored the origin and spread of the epidemic from China into Russia …

GeoBoost2: a natural languageprocessing pipeline for GenBank metadata enrichment for virus phylogeography

A Magge, D Weissenbacher, K O'Connor… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We present GeoBoost2, a natural language-processing pipeline for extracting the location of
infected hosts for enriching metadata in nucleotide sequences repositories like National …

[HTML][HTML] Extracting geographic locations from the literature for virus phylogeography using supervised and distant supervision methods

D Weissenbacher, A Sarker, T Tahsin… - AMIA Summits on …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The field of phylogeography allows researchers to model the spread and evolution of viral
genetic sequences. Phylogeography plays a major role in infectious disease surveillance …

[HTML][HTML] Going back to the roots: Evaluating Bayesian phylogeographic models with discrete trait uncertainty

MA Vaiente, M Scotch - Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 2020 - Elsevier
Phylogeography is a popular way to analyze virus sequences annotated with discrete,
epidemiologically-relevant, trait data. For applied public health surveillance, a key quantity …

Geocoding genomic databases using GBIF

RDM Page - bioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
Many nucleotide sequences in the publicly available genomics databases lack spatial
information, such as the latitude and longitude coordinates for the locality where the sample …