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Published on: January 5, 2024
Efficient extraction of protein-protein interactions from full-text articles
Jörg Hakenberg1, Robert Leaman, Nguyen Ha Vo
1Department of Computer Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281-8809, USA. joerg.hakenberg@asu.edu
Summary
This study presents automated methods for identifying protein interactions and mapping proteins to UniProt IDs from research papers. The approach enhances efficiency in curating protein interaction databases.
Area of Science:
- Computational Biology
- Bioinformatics
- Biotechnology
Background:
- Protein interactions are fundamental to cellular processes and are documented in scientific literature.
- Efficiently curating this information for protein interaction databases is a significant challenge.
- Automated methods are increasingly accurate for extracting biological information from text.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop and evaluate automated methods for protein-named entity recognition and protein-protein interaction extraction.
- To improve the efficiency of processing full-text articles for protein interaction data.
- To compare different computational strategies for accuracy and speed.
Main Methods:
- Protein-named entity recognition and normalization.
- Extraction of protein-protein interactions from full-text articles.
- Development of a fine-grained training corpus by transferring document-level annotations to the sentence-level.
- Sentence classification for ranking relevance to novel interactions with physical evidence.
- Heuristics for paraphrasing sentences to remove interfering information.
Main Results:
- Achieved an f-score of 22% for finding protein interactions and 43% for mapping proteins to UniProt IDs in the BioCreative II.5 challenge.
- Disregarding species, f-scores improved to 30% for interactions and 55% for UniProt ID mapping.
- The best-performing setup processed a full-text article in approximately 2 minutes.
Conclusions:
- The developed automated methods offer efficient components for protein interaction data curation.
- Strategies for corpus creation and sentence ranking improve the accuracy of identifying protein interactions.
- The study provides valuable insights and resources for future implementations in bioinformatics.
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