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Published on: August 6, 2018
A simple and practical dictionary-based approach for identification of proteins in Medline abstracts
Sergei Egorov1, Anton Yuryev, Nikolai Daraselia
1Ariadne Genomics, Inc, Rockville, MD 20850, USA.
Objective:
The aim of this study was to develop a practical and efficient protein identification system for biomedical corpora.
Design:
The developed system, called ProtScan, utilizes a carefully constructed dictionary of mammalian proteins in conjunction with a specialized tokenization algorithm to identify and tag protein name occurrences in biomedical texts and also takes advantage of Medline "Name-of-Substance" (NOS) annotation. The dictionaries for ProtScan were constructed in a semi-automatic way from various public-domain sequence databases followed by an intensive expert curation step.
Measurements:
The recall and precision of the system have been determined using 1000 randomly selected and hand-tagged Medline abstracts.
Results:
The developed system is capable of identifying protein occurrences in Medline abstracts with a 98% precision and 88% recall. It was also found to be capable of processing approximately 300 abstracts per second. Without utilization of NOS annotation, precision and recall were found to be 98.5% and 84%, respectively.
Conclusion:
The developed system appears to be well suited for protein-based Medline indexing and can help to improve biomedical information retrieval. Further approaches to ProtScan's recall improvement also are discussed.
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