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Datamining Medline for Gene Interactions - Pubgene

Posted by michael on from the number-crunching dept.

An Anonymous Coward wrote: "According to an article in the 5 May 2001 issue of New Scientist , biologists in Norway have developed a computer program to datamine Medline to predict interactions between genes. Some of the relationships hadn't been predicted before and were found to be real. The scientists' PubGene database and tools are available for experimentation." Wow.

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  1. Interesting stuff right in front of them by mizhi · · Score: 5

    First off, yeah... that reaction pretty much sums it up. "Wow."

    But I find it interesting that their method was so simple. It didn't involve any real complicated methods... basically a glorified text scanner. Yet, it was able to predict some new interactions that hadn't existed before. Still, it was only 7 times better than random guessing... I wonder if that could be improved any?

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