Using literature-based discovery to identify novel therapeutic approaches

Cardiovascular and Hematological Agents in Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 14-24

  Hristovski, Dimitar ^a   Rindflesch, Thomas ^b   Peterlin, Borut ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Automatic summarization; Computer applications; Drug repurposing; Information management; Information retrieval; Literature based discovery; Natural language processing; PubMed MEDLINE; Semantic processing; Text mining; Unified Medical Language System

Indexed keywords

ANNI; ARROWSMITH; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; BITOLA; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DAD; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG TARGETING; EPIPHANET; GENE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEM; IRIDESCENT; LITERATURE; LITLINKER; MANJAL; MEDLINE; RAJOLINK; SEMANTICS; SEMBT; TELEMAKUS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; DRUG DISCOVERY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84873111713     PISSN: 18715257     EISSN: 18756182     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1871525711311010005     Document Type: Article

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