Literature mining for the biologist: From information retrieval to biological discovery

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 119-129

  Jensen, Lars Juhl ^a   Saric, Jasmin ^b   Bork, Peer ^a,c  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b EML Research gGmbH   (Germany)

^c MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENOMICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDLINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PERIODICALS;

EID: 31144432293     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1768     Document Type: Review

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