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Identifying Plant-Human Disease Associations in Biomedical Literature: A Case Study
Vivekanand Sharma1, Wayne Law2, Michael J Balick2
1Center for Biomedical Informatics, Brown University, Providence, RI USA.
Abstract:
The impact of ethnobotanical data from surveys of traditional medicinal uses ofplants can be enhanced through the validation of biomedical knowledge that may be embedded in literature. This study aimed to explore the use of informatics approaches, including natural language processing and terminology resources, for extracting and comparing ethnobotanical leads from biomedical literature indexed in MEDLINE. Using ethnobotanical data for plant species described in Primary Health Care Manuals of the Micronesian islands of Palau and Pohnpei, the results of this study were done relative to disease concepts from the "Mental, Behavioral And Neurodevelopmental Disorders " ICD-9-CM category. The results from this feasibility study suggest that informatics methods can be used to extract and prioritize relevant ethnobotanical information from biomedical knowledge literature.
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