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Automated extraction and semantic analysis of mutation impacts from the biomedical literature

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Automated extraction and semantic analysis of mutation impacts from the biomedical literature

Naderi, Nona and Witte, René (2012) Automated extraction and semantic analysis of mutation impacts from the biomedical literature. BMC Genomics, 13 (Suppl4). S10. ISSN 1471-2164

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Mutations as sources of evolution have long been the focus of attention in the biomedical literature. Accessing the mutational information and their impacts on protein properties facilitates research in various domains, such as enzymology and pharmacology. However, manually curating the rich and fast growing repository of biomedical literature is expensive and time-consuming. As a solution, text mining approaches have increasingly been deployed in the biomedical domain. While the detection of single-point mutations is well covered by existing systems, challenges still exist in grounding impacts to their respective mutations and recognizing the affected protein properties, in particular kinetic and stability properties together with physical quantities.

RESULTS: We present an ontology model for mutation impacts, together with a comprehensive text mining system for extracting and analysing mutation impact information from full-text articles. Organisms, as sources of proteins, are extracted to help disambiguation of genes and proteins. Our system then detects mutation series to correctly ground detected impacts using novel heuristics. It also extracts the affected protein properties, in particular kinetic and stability properties, as well as the magnitude of the effects and validates these relations against the domain ontology. The output of our system can be provided in various formats, in particular by populating an OWL-DL ontology, which can then be queried to provide structured information. The performance of the system is evaluated on our manually annotated corpora. In the impact detection task, our system achieves a precision of 70.4%-71.1%, a recall of 71.3%-71.5%, and grounds the detected impacts with an accuracy of 76.5%-77%. The developed system, including resources, evaluation data and end-user and developer documentation is freely available under an open source license at http://www.semanticsoftware.info/open-mutation-miner.

CONCLUSION: We present Open Mutation Miner (OMM), the first comprehensive, fully open-source approach to automatically extract impacts and related relevant information from the biomedical literature. We assessed the performance of our work on manually annotated corpora and the results show the reliability of our approach. The representation of the extracted information into a structured format facilitates knowledge management and aids in database curation and correction. Furthermore, access to the analysis results is provided through multiple interfaces, including web services for automated data integration and desktop-based solutions for end user interactions.

Divisions:Concordia University > Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science > Computer Science and Software Engineering
Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Authors:Naderi, Nona and Witte, René
Journal or Publication:BMC Genomics
Date:18 June 2012
Projects:
  • Open Mutation Miner (OMM)
Funders:
  • Concordia Open Access Author Fund
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):10.1186/1471-2164-13-S4-S10
ID Code:974169
Deposited By: RENE WITTE
Deposited On:26 Jun 2012 14:11
Last Modified:18 Jan 2018 17:37
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