Global genetic diversity status and trends: towards a suite of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for genetic composition

S Hoban, FI Archer, LD Bertola, JG Bragg… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity underlies ecosystem resilience, ecosystem function, sustainable economies,
and human well‐being. Understanding how biodiversity sustains ecosystems under …

A systematic review of spatial decision support systems in public health informatics supporting the identification of high risk areas for zoonotic disease outbreaks

R Beard, E Wentz, M Scotch - International journal of health geographics, 2018 - Springer
Background Zoonotic diseases account for a substantial portion of infectious disease
outbreaks and burden on public health programs to maintain surveillance and preventative …

Location extraction from social media: Geoparsing, location disambiguation, and geotagging

SE Middleton, G Kordopatis-Zilos… - ACM Transactions on …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Location extraction, also called “toponym extraction,” is a field covering geoparsing,
extracting spatial representations from location mentions in text, and geotagging, assigning …

Two hundred and five newly assembled mitogenomes provide mixed evidence for rivers as drivers of speciation for Amazonian primates

MC Janiak, FE Silva, RMD Beck, D de Vries… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Mitochondrial DNA remains a cornerstone for molecular ecology, especially for study
species from which high‐quality tissue samples cannot be easily obtained. Methods using …

Extracting and modeling geographic information from scientific articles

E Acheson, RS Purves - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Scientific articles often contain relevant geographic information such as where field work
was performed or where patients were treated. Most often, this information appears in the full …

Biodiversity at the global scale: the synthesis continues

RA Folk, CM Siniscalchi - American Journal of Botany, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Traditionally, the generation and use of biodiversity data and their associated specimen
objects have been primarily the purview of individuals and small research groups. While …

Seqenv: linking sequences to environments through text mining

L Sinclair, UZ Ijaz, LJ Jensen, MJL Coolen… - PeerJ, 2016 - peerj.com
Understanding the distribution of taxa and associated traits across different environments is
one of the central questions in microbial ecology. High-throughput sequencing (HTS) …

GeoBoost: accelerating research involving the geospatial metadata of virus GenBank records

T Tahsin, D Weissenbacher, K O'Connor… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
GeoBoost is a command-line software package developed to address sparse or incomplete
metadata in GenBank sequence records that relate to the location of the infected host (LOIH) …

Bi-directional recurrent neural network models for geographic location extraction in biomedical literature

A Magge, D Weissenbacher, A Sarker… - … 2019: Proceedings of …, 2018 - World Scientific
Phylogeography research involving virus spread and tree reconstruction relies on accurate
geographic locations of infected hosts. Insufficient level of geographic information in …

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 …