Anni 2.0: a multipurpose text-mining tool for the life sciences.
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SUBMITTER: Jelier R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2481428 | biostudies-literature | 2008
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Anni 2.0: a multipurpose text-mining tool for the life sciences.
Jelier Rob R Schuemie Martijn J MJ Veldhoven Antoine A Dorssers Lambert C J LC Jenster Guido G Kors Jan A JA
Genome biology 20080612 6
Anni 2.0 is an online tool (http://biosemantics.org/anni/) to aid the biomedical researcher with a broad range of information needs. Anni provides an ontology-based interface to MEDLINE and retrieves documents and associations for several classes of biomedical concepts, including genes, drugs and diseases, with established text-mining technology. In this article we illustrate Anni's usability by applying the tool to two use cases: interpretation of a set of differentially expressed genes, and li ...[more]
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