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CPRiL: compound-protein relationships in literature
Ammar Qaseem1, Stefan Günther1
1Research Group Pharmaceutical Bioinformatics, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg 79104, Germany.
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
|August 3, 2022
Summary
A new web server, CPRiL, identifies functional relationships between small molecules and proteins from scientific literature. This tool aids drug discovery by extracting crucial compound-protein interactions from vast biomedical data.
Area of Science:
- Molecular Biology
- Life Sciences
- Drug Discovery
Background:
- Discovering functional relationships between biomolecules is vital for research.
- Understanding small molecule-protein interactions is crucial for drug discovery and metabolism studies.
- The increasing volume of biomedical literature makes information retrieval challenging.
Purpose of the Study:
- To present a novel web server, CPRiL (compound-protein relationships in literature).
- To provide a centralized resource for functional relationships between small molecules and proteins.
- To facilitate efficient information extraction from scientific publications.
Main Methods:
- Development of the CPRiL web server.
- Utilizing a BioBERT machine learning model for relationship extraction.
- Training and testing the model on a large corpus of biomedical literature.
Main Results:
- CPRiL contains approximately 465,000 small molecule names and 100,000 protein names.
- The server provides access to over 9 million functional relationships.
- The BioBERT model achieved high performance with an F1 score of 84.3%.
Conclusions:
- CPRiL offers a valuable resource for researchers in molecular biology and drug discovery.
- The web server efficiently extracts and presents compound-protein interactions from literature.
- The tool demonstrates high accuracy in identifying functional relationships.
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