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Gene symbol disambiguation using knowledge-based profiles
Author(s) -
Hua Xu,
Jungwei Fan,
George Hripcsak,
Eneida A. Mendonça,
Marianthi Markatou,
Carol Friedman
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm056
Subject(s) - computer science , ambiguity , similarity (geometry) , context (archaeology) , information retrieval , gene prediction , gene nomenclature , gene , symbol (formal) , computational biology , artificial intelligence , natural language processing , genome , genetics , biology , taxonomy (biology) , paleontology , botany , nomenclature , image (mathematics) , programming language
The ambiguity of biomedical entities, particularly of gene symbols, is a big challenge for text-mining systems in the biomedical domain. Existing knowledge sources, such as Entrez Gene and the MEDLINE database, contain information concerning the characteristics of a particular gene that could be used to disambiguate gene symbols.

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