Alkemio: association of chemicals with biomedical topics by text and data mining.
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SUBMITTER: Gijon-Correas JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4086102 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Alkemio: association of chemicals with biomedical topics by text and data mining.
Gijón-Correas José A JA Andrade-Navarro Miguel A MA Fontaine Jean F JF
Nucleic acids research 20140516 Web Server issue
<h4>Unlabelled</h4>The PubMed® database of biomedical citations allows the retrieval of scientific articles studying the function of chemicals in biology and medicine. Mining millions of available citations to search reported associations between chemicals and topics of interest would require substantial human time. We have implemented the Alkemio text mining web tool and SOAP web service to help in this task. The tool uses biomedical articles discussing chemicals (including drugs), predicts the ...[more]
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