SemMedDB: a PubMed-scale repository of biomedical semantic predications
Author(s) -
Halil Kilicoglu,
Dongwook Shin,
Marcelo Fiszman,
Graciela Rosemblat,
Thomas C. Rindflesch
Publication year - 2012
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/bts591
Subject(s) - computer science , biomedicine , unified medical language system , information retrieval , license , subject (documents) , data science , world wide web , bioinformatics , biology , operating system
Effective access to the vast biomedical knowledge present in the scientific literature is challenging. Semantic relations are increasingly used in knowledge management applications supporting biomedical research to help address this challenge. We describe SemMedDB, a repository of semantic predications (subject-predicate-object triples) extracted from the entire set of PubMed citations. We propose the repository as a knowledge resource that can assist in hypothesis generation and literature-based discovery in biomedicine as well as in clinical decision-making support.
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